Re: Contextual calls

2004-01-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:11 AM -0700 1/11/04, Luke Palmer wrote: I was uneasy when the C and C vtable entries were first proposed. Sure, they get the job done for Perl 5, but Perl 6 is expanding its notion of context beyond those compiled in. You're supposed to be able to add, say, "nontransitive ring" context if yo

Re: Contextual calls

2004-01-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was uneasy when the C and C vtable entries were first > proposed. Sure, they get the job done for Perl 5, but Perl 6 is > expanding its notion of context beyond those compiled in. You're > supposed to be able to add, say, "nontransitive ring" context if

Contextual calls

2004-01-11 Thread Luke Palmer
I was uneasy when the C and C vtable entries were first proposed. Sure, they get the job done for Perl 5, but Perl 6 is expanding its notion of context beyond those compiled in. You're supposed to be able to add, say, "nontransitive ring" context if you want. There needs to be a way to pass cont