Tassilo Parseval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>'Just fakes it' might be a pointer. From the viewpoint of the user, the
>primitive looks like an object without actually being one. So why not
>admitting that by just calling it 'fakeobject' (or plural even)?
mirage ;-)
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Doesn't work here.
>
> Perhaps because I patched against bleadperl instead of RC4?
My newbie bad.
I'll concoct a bleadperl patch when I have a mo.
For now, RC4 please.
> Either way, any reason autobox can't set up SCALAR, HASH,
> et al for the user so the former DWIMs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The impact looks pretty minimal: the patch needs to do a little bit of
extra work in the optree cleanup/optimisation phase, and on method
lookup all the real magic occurs wrapped in a test:
if ((PL_op->op_flags & OPf_SPECIAL) && ...)
.. which test will succeed only if
chocolate boy wrote:
> > (PS. Could autobox.pm be implemented without a core
> > patch ? by using optimizer.pm and B::Generate for
> > example.)
>
> Not using optimize.pm alone. Its peep() hook occurs
> too late i.e. outside the scope in which $^H and %^H
> are meaningful.
On the big TODO list i
