At 12:43 PM -0700 8/8/02, Steve Fink wrote:
>Wow, this thread is looking bad -- I'm replying to my own reply to my
>own message. Sorry; I accidentally hit reply instead of reply to list,
>and from the resulting off-list discussion with Sean O'Rourke I have
>updated the patch. I won't resend it, because it may require more
>changes and it's gotten even bigger.
>
>The patch now also:
>
>- Puts back all of the flawed but still necessary math ops in PerlArray
> (actually, I moved them from the original Array to the new
> PerlArray, because the new Array is very basic and doesn't do things
> like that.)
>
>- Removes the _unicode and _other string ops from all PMCs (the
> patched pmc2c.pl throws a fatal error if you try to implement vtable
> methods not in vtable.tbl.)
>
>- Uses the new DYNSELF.method(...) syntax all over the place.
Cool, go commit it.
>One point of discussion: Sean thinks that default.pmc should throw
>"operation not supported" exceptions for most operations, so that PMCs
>that do not define the operations don't do something mysterious and
>seg fault-prone when they're called. Which makes an awful lot of sense
>to me, but when I went to default.pmc to do that, I saw that they all
>have code that tries very hard to do something sensible in many cases.
>I'm loath to just rip out that much code (especially since I'm not
>sure how many things are successfully using it), so I left it in.
Go ahead and rip it all out.
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Dan
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