RE: Constant comparisons

2001-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs writes: > > It seems to me that this might eventually get out of hand...could there > > possibly be some way to automate the generation of a family of opcodes? For > > example: > > Hear hear, the same thing occurred to me. T

RE: Constant comparisons

2001-09-15 Thread Nathan Torkington
Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs writes: > It seems to me that this might eventually get out of hand...could there > possibly be some way to automate the generation of a family of opcodes? For > example: Hear hear, the same thing occurred to me. The way that there are separate functions for each argument

RE: Constant comparisons

2001-09-15 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
m not proposing that syntax, just wondering if there is a more automated way of doing things. -Original Message- From: Nathan Torkington To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/15/2001 4:56 PM Subject: Constant comparisons I wanted to be able to say eq I1, 15, label1, label2 That is, to co

Constant comparisons

2001-09-15 Thread Nathan Torkington
I wanted to be able to say eq I1, 15, label1, label2 That is, to compare against a constant. I've implemented versions of the comparison opcodes that let you compare against constants. This is my first patch to Parrot. Be merciful :-) Nat (also working on test system ... stay tuned) In