At 11:22 PM -0400 7/31/02, Melvin Smith wrote:
>>Conclusion
>>
>> It seems to me that to implement lexical variables, we only need to
>> implement the set_pmc method and to extend the Sub class so that it
>> contains both a code pointer and a scratchpad.
>
>I agree with you. It can be done without special ops that we just added.
>I see no reason why we can't add an op that allows you to get the
>scratchpad into a Px reg and use it just as a Hash or Array. I expect
>we might want to.
I'd rather keep the separate interface to lexicals and globals.
That'll make it much easier to change the implementation without
breaking existing bytecode.
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