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Dan Sugalski  
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 More options Jul 31 2003, 10:00 am
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals
From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:18:09 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jul 31 2003 7:18 am
Subject: Re: [RFC] Dynamic PMC Classes
At 11:10 +0200 7/31/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

>  > *) Determine the init and setup routine names

>- Parrot_<classname>_class_setup
>- Parrot_<classname>_class_init

>The class_setup also sets the class_enum i.e vtable->base_type.

Well... there are versioning issues there. We ought to be able to
have multiple versions of a class loaded, in which case this may not
work. I'm pretty sure that there are some platforms that require
unique names in libraries across the entire process.

>[1] If there are no objections I'll check that part in. It shouldn't be
>too hard, to finally have a perl script, that generates a platform
>independend Makefile out from %PConfig.

Nope, go for it.

>[2] Somehow related: There was some discussion about PMC methods.
>What about a standard way to allow methods for (almost) all PMCs:
>- have a vtable slot for the method hash
>- move find_method into default.pmc
>- PMCs used in that process mainly PerlHash should better not have
>   methods ;-)

Yeah, that sounds familiar. I'll have to get back to you on this when
I've got more tha 5 minutes for email. :)
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