Currently only is_digit has a dedicated function call slot, as this is
the only one that is actually implemented for all chartypes. The generic
function for usascii handles the standard glibc set (alnum,alpha,etc.);
unicode awaits the interface to ICU.
Calls to the charclass functions are done via macros of the form
Parrot_char_is_digit(chartype, value). These macros are generated to
point to either a dedicated slot or the generic function, as
appropriate. Note that this generation was achieved by changing
config/gen/parrot_include.pl to allow execution of perl code during the
parsing of header files - somebody who knows this stuff better than I do
may want to check to see if I've broken anything too badly.
Regards
Peter Gibbs
EmKel Systems