On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:20:06 Will Coleda wrote: > As I understand it, box is designed to deal /only/ with promoting the > 3 basic register types (SIN) to PMCs of the appropriate HLL type (just > like autoboxing in PCC), not to provide a way to promote literal > values for arbitrary core PMCs. So the discontinuity is that not every > core PMC has a corresponding register type.
Yes. > I think a more general approach might be to have an opcode that > combined 'new' and 'assign'. You could even have it respect the HLL > mappings if present. If Lua has dynops, this is easy. If Lua doesn't have dynops, this could easily be a function. -- c
