Re: Using Ruby Objects with Parrot

2004-03-13 Thread Karl Brodowsky
Mark Sparshatt wrote: The problem is what happens when some Python code tries to call a class method on a Ruby object? if Python doesn't know about the hidden reference within Foo it won't be able to find Foo' in order to call the method. The issue you are addressing is finding the applicable meth

Re: Using Ruby Objects with Parrot

2004-03-12 Thread Karl Brodowsky
Mark Sparshatt wrote: From the description in PDD15 I'm not sure how to hand languages where a class is also an object. Where Foo is an instance of Foo' which is an instance of Class. Could this be handled during compilation? The compiler could produce the classes Foo and Foo' and use something

Re: newbie question....

2004-03-11 Thread Karl Brodowsky
Matt Greenwood wrote: I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What is the design rationale for so many opcodes in parrot? Let me try as another newbie... ;-) Since the opcodes of parrot are not directly supported by any e