Jeff G wrote:
>
> Simon Cozens wrote:
> >
> > I've just committed some changes after which Parrot will not compile.
> > This is quite deliberate. Basically, I'm trying to get the keyed stuff
> > working the way we want, and that requires some painful changes to the
> > source. The upshot is:
> >
> > All the vtable functions _index and index_s are dead; they've been
> > removed from the vtable structure, and so things which expect to find
> > them won't compile.
> > I've added another multimethod, _keyed, which does their job. This
> > means the vtable structure has been rearranged, and everything depending
> > on it will break.
> > Arrays and hashes won't work at all until they're rewritten to use
> > keys instead of integer/string indices.
> >
> > I'm working on unbreaking it, patches welcome.
> >
> > --
> > You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different.
>
> Well, the first set of patches have been committed. The following things
> still need to be done:
>
> 1) Move key.c's bucket functions to perlhash.pmc.
> 2) Rewrite perlhash.pmc class functions to use the proper hashing
> functions.
> 3) Rewrite global_setup.c to use PerlHash members
> 4) Rewrite core.ops to use the new get_{type}_keyed
> 5) Lots of testing.
array and perlarray are done, perlhash should be done tonight. Moving
code around was fairly simple, but I was interrupted before I could add
perlhash to the CVS import.
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Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
