Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:52 AM +0000 1/27/03, Piers Cawley wrote:

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 At 9:24 PM +0000 1/21/03, Piers Cawley wrote:

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
  > Hrm, interesting. Single symbol table for methods and attributes,

  though that's not too surprising all things considered. That may make
  interoperability interesting, but I was already expecting that to some
  extent.

Isn't that, essentially what Perl 6 will have too?

 Nope. Attributes and methods will be very separate. Attributes are
 class-private, more or less, so they won't be in the symbol
 table.

How private?

Well... not *that* private. From the bytecode level all this stuff'll be available, though I hadn't given much thought to the introspection end of things.

 We are still going to be able to write some kind of
serializing tool that won't require tons of per class overloads aren't
we? (I'd like such a serializing tool to work at the Parrot level with
possible callbacks into object methods).

We probably won't need to do that, since all the knowledge necessary to serialize should be built into individual PMC classes, but yeah, it should be reasonably doable assuming that particular classes don't have odd internal structures that aren't otherwise available.
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Dan

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