On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:46:37PM +0000, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Jonathan Worthington wrote: > >At the moment, if you have some ParrotObject instance, say foo, and do > >something like: > > > > $S0 = foo > > > >Then $S0 will contain the name of the class. > > > >=item C<STRING *name()> > > Erm, what the heck was I smoking when I wrote this...the name method > doesn't control what an object stringifies to at all. I managed to read > it as get_string. :-( > > Sorry 'bout that. And while this is marked as being bad in the comment, > I can't remove it since it's used (and I'm not even sure, how bad it is > now). PGE uses it for example.
Hmm, I can't recall where PGE might be using this -- could you point to an example so I can make sure it's relatively sane? Thanks, Pm