> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: Sterin, Ilya; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Using stringified address
>
>
> At 11:09 AM 1/1/2002 -0800, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> >Ok, I understand that this hasn't been implemented due to
> the believe
> >that it's a dangerous feature (Programming Perl). But would
> it be ok
> >to enable/disable it with a specific pragma?
>
> Might happen. Larry's talked about it on and off, and if you
> have a special
> scalar type that's fine. Can't bang the hardware without
> something like
> this, and you can already sort of do it with pack and unpack. Sort of.
It would be very useful (I'm being selfish here maybe). Might even be
sort of like pointer arithmetic (in disguise), though it would be used
for that right:-?
>
> We may have a Pointer class in parrot when we ship. Or we
> might not. (Care
> to write one? :)
Besides allowing to work with constant addresses, would it also allow
pointer arithmetic, or am I going to far with this?
I can take a shot, though wouldn't be for another week or two. I'll
contact you if I need more info on how far do we want the functionality
to expand.
Ilya
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sterin, Ilya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:00 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Using stringified address
> > >
> > >
> > > Not sure if this has already been discussed, but I though
> this would
> > > be a cool option, especially since I've ran into a few
> cases where
> > > this would have been very usefull.
> > >
> > > Using a scalar (string) with an address to another
> variable and be
> > > able to dereference it. This proves very usefull when pasing
> > > dynamic strings with addresses embeded in them. I don't believe
> > > this is available in current perl versions without writing XS. Or
> > > should this just be left for a module to handle. I thought this
> > > would be general enough to include in the CORE.
> > >
> > > Ilya
> > >
>
>
> Dan
>
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