Re: pads and lexicals

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:54:29PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> So I guess I'm asking whether we're abandoning the Perl 5 concept
> of a pad full of tmp targets, each hardcoded as the target for individual
> ops to store their tmp results in.

Not entirely; the last thing we want to be doing is creating PMCs at
runtime.

> If a certain number of PMC regs are 'hardcoded' with pointers to
> PMC tmps, then we need to address register overflow, eg an expression like
> 
> foo($x+1, $x+2, ...., $x+65);

That's slightly different, though, because that'll all be passed in as
a list.

Simon