Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like compiler modules may be done in one of three ways:
> 1) A plain sub, which is passed in the string to compile and returns > a sub PMC that represents the compiled code (if it actually does > something) > 2) An NCI sub with the signature pIt > 3) A Compiler PMC, in which case invoke is called and we hit a twisty > maze of little subclassed methods. (Or I'm reading things wrong) > Mostly true? Yes. A plain sub doesn't really fit into that scheme, though. But if you register that sub as a compiler, then you get case 3) A compiler PMC (returned by the compreg opcode) returns another invokable item, which when invoked, compiles the code. A compiler normally returns a PMC holding the compiled code in a packfile sgement. leo
