At 12:25 PM 10/13/2001 -0400, Ryan O'Neil wrote:
>Thus spake "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm not 100% sure I want random number generation to be a fundamental
> > part of the interpreter. (Though it *is* really appealing...) This sort
> > of thing might be better put in the standard library rather than built
> > in as a core opcode.
> >
> > Nifty, though. :)
>
>Speaking of the standard library, I cannot find any discussions regarding
>it. It's certainly easy enough to create new opcode .so libraries with the
>opcode processing script. Has there been any thought as to how these
>might be properly loaded?
The standard library's getting discussed (or so I'm told) on perl6-stdlib.
Generally speaking whether a library routine's an opcode or just a sub
should be pretty transparent, and we should have (and be able to handle) it
going both ways.
Dan
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