On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:11:53PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 11:57 AM -0700 8/9/04, chromatic wrote:
> >Is there a particular hash lookup style you have in mind? If there's > >something similar in the code already, I can copy, paste, and modify the > >generator trivially. > > You could look at what we do for class registration -- that code > might be similar. I don't think we've got too much at the C level > that messes around with parrot hashes yet, though. Does the structure change at runtime? (ie can one register new dynamically loaded NCI helper code?) If not, a generated switch statement would work as well as a data structure, surely? Personally I'd see what I could coax out of the routines in ExtUtils::Constant, but I'm biased because I wrote that. Nicholas Clark
