Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I think this this boils down to 2 important questions, and I'd be interested in
>hearing people's opinions of them.
>
>1. Does the Perl 6 language require some explicit syntax and/or semnatics to
>handle multiple and user-defined numeric types?
>Eg "my type $scalar",  "$i + integer($r1+$r2)" and so on.

That is a Language and not an internals issue - Larry will tell us.
But I suspect the answer is that it should "work" without any special 
stuff for simple perl5-ish types - because you need to be able to 
translate 98% of 98% of perl5 programs.

So we should start from the premise "no" and see where we get ...

>2. If the answer to (1) is yes, is it possible to decide what the numeric part of
>the vtable API should be until the details of (1) has been agreed on?
>
>I supect the answers are yes and no.

I suspect the answers are "no" and (2) is eliminated as "dead code" ;-)

>
>Dave.
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Nick Ing-Simmons