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

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