RE: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Brent Dax]

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.

Hey, I'm a trained professional in Cozens-to-English, what do you
expect?  :^)

--Brent Dax
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