Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:53:15PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > > Relative is the usual apposite to absolute, but we have a three-way
> > > logic here, so appositives don't really work. I think that "hll" is the
> > > best I can think of, and given the existing ".HLL" directive, its meaning
> > > is immediately clear:
> > > .HLL 'perl5', perl5_group
> > > .namespace ['Foo']
> > > $P0 = get_global ['Bar'], 'x' # ['perl5';'Foo';'Bar';'x']
> > > $P0 = get_hll_global ['Corge'], 'x' # ['perl5';'Corge';'x']
> > > $P0 = get_abs_global ['parrot'], 'x' # ['parrot';'x']
> >
> > What's the status on the above...has it been blessed/implemented yet?
> > This looks to me like exactly what is needed/desired for the various
> > HLL's I'm working with.
>
> Allison has blessed it except for the detail of the "_hll_" in the HLL
> selection. I haven't started implementing it yet, though nothing stands
> in my way technically.
>
> I've suggested that get_namespace follow exactly the same pattern, but
> so far she hasn't commented on that suggestion at all.
I really like both of these suggestions. We also noted on #parrot that
get_hll_global would really simplify things for the Tcl folks, which
currently go through a macro to achieve the same effect.
You mean get_abs_global, actually. The proposed get_hll_global opcode
mirrors the existing find_global exactly. :-)
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