On Saturday 23 February 2002 23:35, Brent Dax wrote:
> The Magic Word in this case is "embedders".
>
> a) We can't reserve "any symbol starting with 'P'" to Parrot.  That's a
> little too wide a scope.

Well, Phuck.

> b) I'd rather not have embedders worrying about "is this a value type or
> a pointer type?".  They don't *want* to learn about Parrot's internals,
> they just want to *use* Parrot.  Questions like "does this type have to
> be declared as a pointer?" interfere with questions like "how should I
> best write this parser?".


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Bryan C. Warnock
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