At 08:44 AM 9/13/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:47:06AM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> > I *really* think we need to munge the names, though. "end" is just
> > far too common a symbol for us to be able to pollute it. Let's
> > learn the lesson from Perl 5: All symbols exported by the Parrot
> > code need a prefix.
>
>Aiiee. Yes, I appreciate what you're saying, but the other lessons
>from Perl 5 is that if you want to do that, you end up with either
>lots of unweildy code, or a nasty macro renaming. Which is it
>gonna be?
We're almost never going to be calling opcode functions by name in the
core, the core build doesn't care since all that stuff is autogenerated,
and nobody had better be calling these functions from extensions, so...
I say we munge 'em. Throw a parrot_op_ prefix on them in the preprocessing
stage and be done with it. :)
Dan
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