On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:29:45PM -0500, Matt Diephouse wrote: > Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Say, that gives me an idea. Python-like untyped namespaces are a > > significant subpopulation. > > > > Matt: How about a standard namespace method: > > > > INTVAL is_typed() > > > > which returns false for the simple Python-like unmangled namespaces? This > > would allow -all- untyped namespaces to export to each other without hassle, > > even if they're from different HLLs. > > It definitely shouldn't be a problem. But it's only useful if you > think that languages won't be able to correctly identify their own > types [...]
As you surmise, it's a performance hack. It's still useful if it just allows a significant number of export events to *avoid* the processing of identifying object types. Python-like namespaces will use this test *instead* of the "are you of the same namespace type as me" test for shortcut processing. -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
