Primitive Array/Hash PMCs

2002-07-26 Thread Melvin Smith
Since not all languages targetting Parrot need or want neato things like aggregate keys, I propose that they be left to the Perl* stuff and we make the default Array/Hash very simple, but fast primitive versions. That means a plain Array will be able to use Ix registers directly as subscripts wit

Array vs. PerlArray

2002-07-26 Thread Melvin Smith
Array currently is broken. I'm not sure about _how_ broken, but I know it doesn't work as well as PerlArray. I think Steve Fink worked out some bugs in PerlArray that may have been left in Array. I can't remember who wrote what (I know it wasn't me, Jeff maybe?), but if there aren't any complai

Re: [PATCH] add invoke vtable method

2002-07-26 Thread Melvin Smith
At 11:04 AM 7/22/2002 -0600, Jonathan Sillito wrote: >The attached patch makes the following changes: > >- adds invoke op to core.ops (patch does not remove call and callco) >- adds vtable method 'invoke' to vtable.tbl >- adds simple description (stolen from Dan's email) of the method to >docs/pdd