On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 1:39 PM +0200 9/6/02, Josef Hook wrote:
> >On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> >> At 1:40 PM +0100 9/5/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >> >I believe applying the patch is the right thing, because it's progress
> >> >on where we are, but I think (not fully formed yet) that we would benefit
> >> >from finer granularity on what can get modified
> >>
> >> Point. OK, put 'em in.
> >
> >Does this patch outdate my patch [perl #16934] ?
> >
> ><change of subject>
> >
> >Come to think of it i dont believe we've discussed how we are going
> >to pass sizes when initializing pmcs. I've just assumed that it was
> >clear to everyone how we would do it. [perl #16934] makes this pasm syntax
> >valid:
> >
> >new P0, MultiArray[2;2;2]
> >
> >with the old syntax it wouldnt work to pass multidims
> >
> >new P0, MultiArray, 2,2,2
> >
> >Dan what is the correct syntax?
>
> new P0, .IntegerPMCType, P5
>
> where P5 has the initialization doodad in it. I think it's going to
> be an array of name/value pairs, but we may make it an array of Pair
> PMCs.
Ok then, [perl #16934] is unvalid, it should be removed from rt unless
we want its syntax as an alternative to the correct way.
/Josef
