On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:28PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Not to speak for Dan, but there's no code yet to review or learn from.
> I'd love to see someone set up a perl *5* apprentice program, and
> Mark-Jason Dominus has some ideas on how it might work. For perl6,
> though, we're not yet at a place where I think it makes sense. Right
> now there's so little defined in the way of implementation, that
> questions can be asked and answered on the mailing list.
Again, not to speak for Dan, but I think we're almost at the point where
we can *start* coding up some vtable libraries. If you remember, I tossed
some sample code out a few months back; I keep trying to sit down and work
out what classes need what methods, and I keep stumbling across yet another
interesting idea, taking it to Dan and finding he's thought about it and
solved it in a different way. Once we know what each vtable class ought to
do, we can certainly start coding them.
If anyone wants to do some really useful work, they can scout through
sv.c, av.c and hv.c, and summarise the functions that Perl 5 expects to
be able to perform on scalars, arrays and hashes.
Simon
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