Dan --
> Here's a list of manifest constants I think Parrot should know about.
> Anyone care to add to the list?
>
> '' (empty string)
> 0
> 1
> undef
> NaN
> pi
> e
> epsilon (maybe)
That brings up an interesting issue. The Ix registers initialize to
zero, as do the Nx registers. These are valid values for those
register types. However, the Sx registers initialize to NULL, which is
not treated elsewhere (such as print_sc) as a valid string value.
I think we need to either treat NULL as if it were an empty string
everywhere, or we need to initialize string registers to proper
empty string values.
So, organized by type, we have:
STRING: ''
INTEGER: 0, 1
NUMBER: 0.0, 1.0, pi, e, epsilon, NaN
COOKIE: undef
Now, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "Parrot should know
about" these. Are you referring to special treatment in the
assembler? Are you suggesting every const_table be initialized with
these values?
Regards,
-- Gregor
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