"David M. Lloyd" wrote:
> Do we really want *two* inheritance trees per object
> in Perl 6?  One language-level and one PMC-level?

Well, parrot != perl6, so I don't see a problem.
The MM dispatch problem is pretty much solidly in
the realm of pmc inheritance, and that's something
we have control over the complexity of.  And Dan
assures us that the complexity will be quite low. :-)


> ...to save implementors some typing. 

I'm guessing you didn't intend irony there?  :-)


> There is really no inheritance of any kind going on,
> it just sticks pointers to the default functions into the vtable
> structure method entries for undefined methods.

But that's what type inheritance is!

-- 
JohnDouglasPorter


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