Dan Sugalski:
# At 03:37 PM 1/3/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
# While cool, I'm interested in why? For regexes you can stash
# a pointer to
# the string buffer into an S register if you want to bypass
# even one level
# of indirection.
Handles would probably be used for other things besides regex info
structures--basically, anything where you needed to stash a pointer
somewhere without worrying about the size of INTVAL. This seemed like a
pretty good time to introduce such a thing, since I was working on
something where I needed to stash a pointer. They're also safer than S
registers--you can't segfault by accidentally printing one or something.
(Besides, I still can't wrap my brain around the idea that 'S' is for
'structure', not 'string'. :^) )
Can you take a reference to an S register and bless the reference into
an object? Can you store an S register into a symbol table? My current
idea for implementing /g is that you reuse the same structure; it would
be very nice if it wasn't too hard to do such a thing.
Argh, I'm rambling. You get the idea.
--Brent Dax
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