Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Paul Prescod]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> 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.

What is the downside of having types be first-class objects at the
Parrot level?

 Paul Prescod