On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 7:30 PM +0100 1/12/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> >Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Example:
> >
> >>    .sym scalar var
> >>    new var, .Perlint  # the instance is a substype of C<scalar>
> >
> >  .sym pmc var
> >
> >is as good. There isn't any difference. Its even simpler for compiler
> >writers.
> 
> Which brings up a question. What's the difference between .local and .sym?
> --

Currently, there is none. So I went for the shortest:

grep -n -e LOCAL imcc.l 
imcc.l:181:".sym"          return(LOCAL);
imcc.l:206:".local"        return(LOCAL);

--
  stef


>                                         Dan

Reply via email to