Thanks Simon
I haven't used Perl since its pre-inhertance days, so I was unaware it
supported multiple inheritance.
Most languages I'm familar with that have garbage collection don't have
true stack variables. For example, the code....
void f()
{
int x = 0;
...
}
....creates x on the stack in C++ (which is not garbage collected), but
creates it on the heap as a garbage collected object in Java. This has
ramifications not only in how programmers write their code, but in how
language designers design their languages.
>From what I've seen, supporting both garbage collection and true stack
variables is a difficult task.
Dave
Simon Cozens
<simon@netthin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A
Few More Questions)
01/25/02 10:46
AM
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:18:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) Does Parrot support multiple inheritance?
> 2) Does Parrot support stack variables or is everything allocated on the
> heap?
There's an easy way to answer these questions for yourself.
"Does Parrot support X?" == "Does any language which we hope to run
on Parrot support X?"
Perl has multiple inheritance. It would be a shame if the interpreter we
wrote to run Perl on didn't have multiple inheritance.
Perl, and many other languages, have stack variables. Parrot has to support
them.
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