PMC initializer stuff

[Dan Sugalski]

Okay, it's been a while, I've been out of it, it's time to start getting going.

Today's first topic: PMCs with real initializers. Here's a snip from the updated PDD2:

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=item void init_pmc(INTERP, PMC* self, PMC* initializer)

This form of the init method takes a single initializer parameter. The
initializer is an array that contains keys and values. The meaning of
the keys and their corresponding values is left up to the PMC.

Keys are either strings or integers. If strings, the PMC is
responsible for figuring out what the string represents. If integers,
it means the meaning has been pre-figured based on meta-information
from the class.

For example, if a class has the known properties "Size", "Dimension"
and "Color", they may be assigned the values 100, 101, and 102. If the
creator if the PMC knows enough about the class to make the
translation to numbers it may, otherwise the strings may be used. So
for the declaration:

my @foo is Size(12) is Dimension(3) is Color("Green");

the init array may be [100, 12, 101, 3, 102, "Green"] or ["Size", 12,
"Dimension", 3, "Color", "Green"]. Note that, in all cases, the array
is an array of PMCs. (So you get either an int PMC or a string PMC in
the list of keys)


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We still have the plain init call for cases where we're not doing anything special.
--
Dan

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