Re: My brain dump for the PMCs PDD

2007-04-24 Thread Allison Randal
Leopold Toetsch wrote: This is what the cstruct-Proposal is for. The cstruct is describing the internals of a PMC (which happen to consist of C structure items) Aye. For general information, these are the current draft PDDs that I'm merging into 1 (or 2) PMC PDDs. pdd02_vtables.pod pdd04_d

Re: My brain dump for the PMCs PDD

2007-04-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Montag, 23. April 2007 23:18 schrieb Jonathan Worthington: > Proposal: PMCs can have attributes just as classes in HLLs have > attributes. This is somewhat related to variable sized PMCs; note you > can leave PMC headers fixed size and just have a pmc_ext like structure > that is the variable si

Re: My brain dump for the PMCs PDD

2007-04-23 Thread Allison Randal
Jonathan Worthington wrote: Hi all, Here's my semi-coherent collection of random thoughts about PMCs. Wonderful! Anyone else who has encountered problems with the current implementation of PMCs, or wishes for features PMCs don't have yet (or features that are only partially implemented), ple

My brain dump for the PMCs PDD

2007-04-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Hi all, Here's my semi-coherent collection of random thoughts about PMCs, typed up while sitting in a nice sunny park in London last week. A lot of details will need hashing out with these ideas. I am primarily trying to address: * Interaction between PMCs and classes built with Class (but i