On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:54:48PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:27 PM +0100 10/21/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:18:37PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > >> I'm currently committing the new splice vtable method for array classes. > >> And finally, PMCs are currently only copied in, not cloned - I don't > >> know, what is correct. > > > >"clone" is a deep copy? whereas "copied" means that another reference to > >the > >same object is stored? > > > >If so, I'd say that if only one option is available, then it should be > >copied. > > Copying is the right thing to do here. If the compiler wants to put > copies of things into an aggregate, it can make copies first.
You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. :-) [I take it that you mean: copying the PMC in is the right thing to do where. If the compiler wants to put a copy of the value into an aggregate, it can make a deep copy first ] Nicholas Clark -- Brainfuck better than perl? http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/
