Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:01 AM 9/25/2001 +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:

> > The other subtle difference, now that I think about it, is a bug in 
> Parrot; I
> > wasn't planning to garbage collect vtables the same way that we GC PMCs.
>The python way is more so, vtables (PyTypeObjects) are PMC (PyObjects).
>
>So types are first-class objects.

Not at the Parrot level they aren't. They might be faked out to be so at 
the Perl/Python/Ruby level, though.


                                        Dan

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