[EMAIL PROTECTED]: # I've been watching the Parrot development with interest and have a few # questions about Parrots capabilities. # # Will Parrot support templates (also known as generics)?
If you mean like C++ templates, then the answer is that it's up to the language. There won't be anything in Parrot that will prevent it. # Will Parrot support operator overloading? Yup, that's what vtables are all about. At the Parrot level, you just overlaod the 'add' vtable entry (and its variants) to implement +; at the language level you do whatever you want. # Do Parrot classes have constructors and destructors? Yes. # Does Parrot have garbage collection? Not yet, but it will. # When a Parrot class is garbage collected or otherwise # destroyed, is its # destructor executed? If so, when? In other words, is # object destruction # 100% deterministic in Parrot? Depends on the language, but Parrot will support deterministic destruction. # Does Parrot memory allocation support placement? In other # words, can I # supply a Parrot memory allocation routine with the address # of a variable # and the desired size to allocate and expect Parrot to # allocate a block # of the given size starting at the address I provided? Dunno, that's not my department. # How hard would it be to implement memory pools of objects # in Parrot? .... # Does Parrot support threads? Not yet, but it will. # Does Parrot support exceptions? Not yet, but it will. # Can I invoke routines written in other languages, such as # C or C++, from # Parrot? Yes--you'll just have to write opcodes to wrap them. # Thanks in advance for your help. You're quite welcome. --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Parrot Configure pumpking and regex hacker <obra> mmmm. hawt sysadmin chx0rs <lathos> This is sad. I know of *a* hawt sysamin chx0r. <obra> I know more than a few. <lathos> obra: There are two? Are you sure it's not the same one?
