Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.perl.org Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact perl6-internals-h...@perl.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list perl6-intern...@perl.org Delivered-To: perl6-intern...@perl.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:05:16 +0000 To: Arthur Bergman Cc: perl6-intern...@perl.org, ponie-...@perl.org Subject: Re: References to hash elements? Message-ID: <20040106170516.GA2013@alibi.simon-cozens.org> Mail-Followup-To: Arthur Bergman , perl6-intern...@perl.org, ponie-...@perl.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: Linux alibi 2.4.18 X-POM: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (99% of Full) X-Addresses: The si...@cozens.net address is deprecated due to being broken. si...@brecon.co.uk still works, but simon-cozens.org or netthink.co.uk are preferred. X-Spam-Check-By: la.mx.develooper.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=7.0 tests=CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.44 X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.26, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Approved: n...@nntp.perl.org From: si...@simon-cozens.org (Simon Cozens) Lines: 10 Arthur Bergman: > I am wondering how the references to hash elements are planned to be > done? The call to set_ must somehow be delayed until the time is right. I would have thought that a hash element would itself be a PMC rather than an immediate value, so a reference to that should be treated just like any other reference to a PMC. -- Ever wake up feeling like a null pointer? -Allan Pratt