On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:57:10PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > This is primarily for Allison, but others can chip in....
> >
> > 1. In PIR, if I have an Object in a PMC register, how do I
> > determine its corresponding Class object? Is the "standard"
> > mechanism to use the C<inspect> opcode?
> >
> > $P1 = inspect $P0, 'class' # $P1 is class object of $P0
>
> In src/ops/object.ops, we have:
> =item B<class>(out PMC, invar PMC)
> Get the class PMC for the object in $2 and put it in $1.
>
> This is exactly what I'm looking for, but it's not currently documented
> in pdd15. Can this be "made official" one way or the other -- i.e.,
> "officially adopted" or "officially rejected"?
This ended up being discussed on IRC -- just to complete this thread
I'll note that we settled on the 'typeof' opcode to return the
class (or PMCProxy) object for a PMC:
$P1 = typeof $P0 # $P1 is class object / PMC proxy of $P0
Pm
