Re: vtables: Assignment vs. Aliasing

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:35:18PM -0200, Branden wrote: > It [aliasing] means that the behaviour of $a/@a/%a is felt on $b/@b/%b, and > vice-versa, so that they are both the same thing. In vtable terms, the > vtable of $b/@b/%b would get copied to $a/@a/%a No, no, not at all. Aliasing is a feat

Re: vtables: Assignment vs. Aliasing

2001-02-07 Thread Bart Lateur
[CC'ed to language, because I think it's there that it belongs] On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:35:18 -0200, Branden wrote: >There are two possible things that could happen when you say: >$a = $b; >@a = @b; # or >%a = %b; > >These two things are assignment and aliasing. No way. Although I th

Re: vtables: Assignment vs. Aliasing

2001-02-05 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:35:18PM -0200, Branden wrote: > How will this problem be solved, and, more generally, how will aliasing take > place in perl6? This is perhaps a bad way to answer the question, but: I'm hoping that the vtable PDD should be around in a few days (Pssst, Dan!) and it migh