> (And yes, this means store_globalwill be relatively little-used)
Would a few operators like 'find_or_store_reference_global' (shorten the name as you like) be in order for those situations where you want to store to a global but don't know if the variable exists, yet? (This would, I think, be very useful in languages where globals are not predelared).
I can see it being so, but there's the issue of the *type* of what's in that slot to contend with. If it didn't exist you wouldn't necessarily want to fill it in with a
> So, generally, the problem isn't one,
My only issue is that it's not always clear whether an op is assigning to a reference PMC or just a PMC register (or whatever). People like to write stuff like
$P0 = new PerlInt # Value! $P0 = 1 # Reference!
and that still bothers me.
That's a side-effect of IMCC.(I've got a big library of IMCC library code and it's darned confusing to me, too) It was a lot clearer with the old-style pasm:
set S4, P5 set P5, I5
where it was a lot clearer what was going on and the automatic conversions were more obvious.
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