At 01:27 PM 10/6/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Saturday 06 October 2001 01:13 pm, Michael Maraist wrote:
> > So would it be something like(ultimtaely put into a macro):
> > AUTO_OP add_p_p_p {
> > if (!P1)
> > CREATE_PMC(P1);
> > if (!P2 || !P3)
> > throw exception; // however this is done in Parrot
> > P2->vtable->add[P3->type]->(interp, P1, P2, P3); //in macro
> > }
> >
> > In this way each vtable operation is really an array of handlers for
> > each possible type of input.
>
>Arghh, no. Surely you don't mean 'each possible' the way that I'm reading
>'each possible'? [1]
Nope. The range for type here is severely limited. It'll have a "Beats me,
go punt" value that the odd stuff'll fall into.
Dan
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