Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:05:26PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
> In other words, when you have sub foo {} in your code, it will be
> assigned an opcode number in the 'private' section.  The global section
> is for things that are built-in to Parrot, while the private section is
> for stuff you write.  (Right?)

That's a better explanation than I managed, thanks.

> Perl *scalars* are PMCs.  Those PMCs may hold strings within them.
> However, string manipulation is done in special string registers, which
> are *not* PMCs.

That's also a better explanation than I managed, thanks.