Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
I'm not at all arguing that this automatically means we should call
them "methods", but at a conceptual level they certainly seem a lot
like methods, and the vtable implementations contain references to
things like SELF and STATICSELF that make them look awfully method-
jerry gay wrote:
i believe (without looking) that the pmc pdd calls them "vtable functions".
i really wish the "vtable methods" meme would die. they're not
methods. they are a collection functions which define the api to
access the pmc, parrot's abstract data type.
Yup. "vtable functions" is
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 05:00:31PM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > They're not really methods in any PIR or C sense though (I usually use the
> > term "entry"), as they're not really inherited nor invoked through a
> > dispatch sc
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:22:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Modified:
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>>trunk/docs/book/ch09_hlls.pod
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>> [Book] Add some basic info about VTables and HLL n
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:22:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Modified:
>trunk/docs/book/ch04_pir_subroutines.pod
>trunk/docs/book/ch09_hlls.pod
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> Log:
> [Book] Add some basic info about VTables and HLL namespaces.
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> Modified: trunk/docs/book/ch04_pir_subroutines.pod
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