On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > Object Instantiation
> > Dan had a moment of clarity and declared that the Parrot Way to
> > instantiate an object in class Foo will be:
> >
> > new P5, .Foo
> >
> > All we need now is a working implementation. And, apparently, knowing
> > what class a class is a member of might be handy, but Dan's punting on
> > ("ignoring the heck out of") that one.
>
> (Yeah, I read the thread, but just thought of this now)
>
> So classes will be integers? Fair enough, as there's just as many of
> those as there are memory locations.
No, classes are identified by integer. They may or may not also have
names.
> I do worry about some long-running daemon that uses anonymous classes
> heavily. It's possible that after quite some time, we'd run out of
> integers, even when there are far fewer than 4 billion classes in
> current existence.
That's going to take a pretty long time, even with the JIT. I'm not
particularly worried about it, and we can deal with it when it happens.
Dan
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