On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:35:46PM -0400, William Coleda wrote: > There are two open tickets about removing the core's dependance on Perl* > PMCs, and instead, making them dynamically loadable and using the language > agnostic PMCs for internal use. > > Talking about this with Leo on IRC, he expressed an interest in getting > these changes in chunks to make them a little more digestable. > > Attached, find the first trivial chunk, which removes as much Perl* from > IMCC internals and tests as possible without writing actually writing any > new PMC code. > PerlArray is going to be the hardest to pull out, as there is no other > Array-style pmc that does everything it does. (or, at least, I can't find > one. =-)
Does the core need "everything it does"? If there was another "Array-style pmc that does everything it does" then could PerlArray be an 'empty subclass' of it? If the answer the first question is yes, then couldn't you just rename PerlArray to something without "Perl" in it? Is the taxonomy of PMCs and what functionality they have, written out somewhere? If not then that seems like the best place to start. Tim. p.s. Forgive me if these are dumb questions - I'm still only a distant observer.
