>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Speaking personally, being able to automatically convert a Parrot array >> to an array of ints or floats would be very useful, but that's because I >> do fairly hard-core number crunching in my day job. What are the >> arguments againtst putting something like this in the NCI interface? > Mainly it's two more things for the interface, which grows ever > larger. Past that, well... there's no real argument against other than > it means more funky assembly code for the JIT building call frames. but it is (just about) one time only work and will save tons of repeated tricky work down the line for those who will embed c libs in parrot. the richer this api is, the less problems for the nci users and that is important IMO. but as i said in my other reply, handling hashes is a big issue and that can't deal will all possible cases (while you can deal with most of the cases for arrays). uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
