I've added this PDD to CVS after taking note of Dan's comments.
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At 7:19 PM + 2/19/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:12:24PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Non-aggregates can (and must) implement the _keyed vtable method,
> > though it may well do nothing but throw an exception.
> >
> > References, for example, will implement them, j
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 05:51:32PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
> =head2 Aggregate and non-aggregate PMCs
>
> We've already said that what separates the aggregate PMCs from the
> non-aggregates is their implementation of the C<_keyed> vtable methods.
> So it is Hereby Decreed that the default vtab
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Need discussion on whether C is a good exception for
> this, or whether something else should be used. It's really a compiler
> screw-up, since code which indexes a non-aggregate shouldn't be
> generated.
Except of course references, where the compiler ca
Brian Lee Ray:
> I'm not a perl programmer , I'm a C programmer,
Ooh good, we could do with a few more of those around... ;)
> >Need discussion on whether C is a good exception for
> >this, or whether something else should be used. It's really a compiler
> >screw-up, since code which indexes a n
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This is a singularly bad name, and needs to change. Probably
>> C is better. It's a shame C is so confusing,
>> since it's accurate.
DS> AGGREGATE_INDEX is good, but awfully big.
what about plain INDEX? or AGG_INDEX if you must.
Thanks for this one. Few things:
At 5:51 PM + 2/17/02, Simon Cozens wrote:
>=head1 DESCRIPTION
>
>First, let's define some terminology. An B is one which
>supports and implements the C<_keyed> variants of vtable methods. These
>variants are B operations, as they act on a specific indexed
>ele
