On Thursday 23 November 2006 08:48, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Here's a more detailed use case of why the current semantics > aren't useful. For subroutine calls, PAST-pm tries to pass > constants directly to subroutines (when it can) rather than > creating temporary PMCs and passing those. For example, a HLL > expression such as > > 3 .op. 4 > > gets turned into PIR like > > $P0 = "infix:.op."(3, 4) > > instead of > > $P0 = new .Integer > assign $P0, 3 > $P1 = new .Integer > assign $P0, 4 > $P2 = "infix:.op."($P0, $P1)
I read through the multi code last night (ow!) and don't see any reason not to make the primitive types and their related PMCs equivalent in the distance value function. Of course, I severely distrust the distance value function after it finds the distance for Pheme's best-matched 'atom?' variant at MMD_BAD_DISTANCE and gets progressively worse for the others. -- c
