Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:06 AM 9/4/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:53:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Might as well just promote the things to PMCs and pass in a list of them.
>
>I anticipate that, especially for Perl, in a lot of cases we'll be dealing
>with PMCs more often than the "scalar" data types.

Of that I have no doubt. The int/string/num registers are really for the 
interpreter's internal use, along with a potential for optimization. I 
doubt we'll see sub calls to user subs that use them in parameter lists.

                                        Dan

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