Q: can, callmeth ...

[Leopold Toetsch]

As ParrotObjects and plain PMCs seems to get more and more unified, the
question arises, if all PMC vtables should be invocable via the standard
method invocation for real objects:

new P2, .PerlString
can I0, P2, "_set_string_native" # = 1
set S0, "_set_string_native"
set P5, P2
set S5, "hello"
callmeth
# or find_method, invoke

Not that I would recommend that but I can imagine, that HLL with "all is
an object philosophy" would like to call all methods like above.

leo

[Dan Sugalski]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

> As ParrotObjects and plain PMCs seems to get more and more unified, the
> question arises, if all PMC vtables should be invocable via the standard
> method invocation for real objects:

Sort of, yes. We're going to define a name for each vtable entry (I'm in
the middle of this now :) for the method to call for that particular
vtable entry if the vtable function is invoked and its supposed to
delegate to parrot code.

I can see ways of making it all methods and dodging the vtable entirely,
but they seem to badly pessimize the default case, so... blech. :)

Dan

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