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Dan Sugalski  
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 More options Jan 30 2004, 9:48 am
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:26:37 -0500
Local: Thurs, Jan 29 2004 6:26 am
Subject: Re[2]: Embedding vs. extending interface types
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At 8:57 AM +0100 1/25/04, Mattia Barbon wrote:

>Il Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:42:20 -0500 Gordon Henriksen
><malic...@mac.com> ha scritto:

>>  On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 11:28 , Mattia Barbon wrote:

>>  > I feel I'm becoming annoying, but: the embedding and extending
>>  > interfaces are still using different names for
>>  > Parrot_Interp/Parrot_INTERP. Which one is correct?

>>  Mattia,

>>  Both are correct. Sort of. :) Parrot_INTERP is an opaque type,
>>  which is
>>  a technique for improving binary compatibility. In the core, which
>>  is
>   I know that. The problem, as you note in your next mail, is:
>Parrot_Interp already has opacity guards, and _is used as an opaque
>type in embedding interface_. Now having two parts of the _external_
>interface use differently-named opaque types for the same thing
>seems pointless, if not confusing.

And pointless. Let's just rename it to Parrot_Interp everywhere.
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