Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, do these work well as pmcs, or should it be integrated with > PerlArray (I hope not)?
It should subclass PerlArray. I think you don't need LazySequence. You can just set the exceptions to the lazy sequence in the PerlArray subclass. Array/PerlArray can hold values for e.g.: @a[0..1000, 1_000_000_000..1_000_001_000] without growing to 1e9*x bytes. > Should Infinity be a pmc? Probably yes. > Any ideas on how these things should be set up at the assembly level? > I was thinking either: Have a look at the initializer in list.c:list_new_init() or classes/array.c:init_pmc() and the docs of init_pmc in pdd02. > Finally, what should things like: > set $I0, $P0 # $P0 contains 1..Inf > Because integer registers can't well store infinity... Through an exception. > Thanks, > Luke leo
