At 7:43 AM +1000 10/24/02, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
Right, good call. This'll make perl's named embedded filehandles (__DATA__ and suchlike things--I'm pretty sure Larry and Damian have Evil Things in mind for this at some point in perl 6) a lot easier as well.Steve Fink wrote:- Stratospheric rehydrocalibration amplifiers for the .NET people (er... or something; I can't remember what they needed)The ability to embed arbitrary data in a pbc file under a named section. This data needs to be readable by the program when it runs, but is otherwise ignored by the rest of Parrot.
A binary data chunk section with named directory for it (per bytecode segment, I think) would work pretty well for this. I don't think we'll need it writable, though. Hopefully not, though there is the potential for interesting things if it is.
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