At 10:28 AM 12/5/2001 -0500, Jason Gloudon wrote:
>Using the aggregate's vtable is another way of getting the job done that
>avoids all the extra reference PMCs. However, references will have to be
>supported.
References are interesting. I'm currently thinking that:
*) PMCs should have a get_reference vtable entry
*) Accessing a reference should be just like accessing the referent. (i.e.
you pass in the same key stuff and the reference vtable does the indirect
lookup for you)
*) Some references will need to be 'smart', so if you do:
$foo = \@bar[4];
and @bar's a packed array, $foo's actually a fancy ref that knows it points
to @bar[4] and calls @bar's vtables when you access it. Or something like that.
Dan
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