Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.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: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:48:52 -0700 (MST) X-X-Sender: cspen...@okcomputer.antiflux.org To: Melvin Smith Cc: perl6-intern...@perl.org Subject: Re: Determining PMC memory addresses In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p3 (Debian) at antiflux.org X-Spam-Check-By: one.develooper.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=7.0 tests=CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.44 X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.26, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Approved: n...@nntp.perl.org From: cspen...@sprocket.org (Cory Spencer) Lines: 11 > I don't think there was ever a consensus about opcode naming. > It seems that we need this but can you give an example > of where you are using it, just to give me some context to think > with? I've been implementing a Lisp interpretter (and hopefully at some point, compiler) and was using the eq_addr (or whatever it's eventually destined to be named) to test for equality between symbol types. (I'm sure there's another hackish way of implementing the test, but this seemed like the cleanest way of doing it at the time...)