Re: Request for behaviour definition for assignment to PerlScalar

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Gibbs
Dan Sugalski wrote: > This: > >new P0, .PerlScalar >new P1, .PerlArray >assign P0, P1 > > isn't code that a compiler should be emitting. (snip alternative compiler output) > Though I freely admit that's a big punt on the real problem, which we > still need to address. > > I'm

Re: Request for behaviour definition for assignment to PerlScalar

2002-08-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:55 AM +0200 8/9/02, Peter Gibbs wrote: >Peter Gibbs wrote: >> vtable method get_scalar(pmc) >> vtable method get_value(pmc, context) > >Having broken the rule of posting before drinking coffee in the morning, >this is obviously nonsense - neither of these will work, because we don

Re: Request for behaviour definition for assignment to PerlScalar

2002-08-09 Thread Peter Gibbs
Peter Gibbs wrote: > vtable method get_scalar(pmc) > vtable method get_value(pmc, context) Having broken the rule of posting before drinking coffee in the morning, this is obviously nonsense - neither of these will work, because we don't know the return type of these functions. So, back