Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Feel free to define some recommended functions. Give 'em all upper-case
> > > names so they don't get confused with real methods. (I hope) A PERL_
> > prefix
> > > might not be a bad thing either.
> >
> >The only one I feel strongly about here is TYPENAME, which should,
> >perhaps, be called by Perl's ref() builtin. Hey-- then as a first
> >try, method calls could do a Perl fetchmeth()! Wouldn't that spiff!
>
> Yep. :) Make it one of the vtable entries--that way you can get a generic
> perl magic cookie pointer and find out what the heck the thing really is.
Making it a data member of the vtable sacrifices extensibility. I
started doing Perlmacs that way until I realized this.
--
John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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