On Aug-08, Peter Gibbs wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Peter Gibbs > # Please include the string: [perl #16077] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16077 > > > > Attached patch implements Dan's new 'assign Px,Py' opcode, which basically > does Px->vtable->set_pmc(Py). > > set_pmc has been implemented in perlundef, perlint, perlnum, perlstring > > Also, all changes of destination vtables have been removed from the above > vtable - PMCs of those four types now retain their types permanently. > > This required some significant alterations to pmc.t, as a lot of the tests > assumed that PMCs would morph themselves. A test for 'assign' for > the supported PMC types has also been added to pmc.t. > > PerlUndef now silently ignores all set operations, much as the Perl5 'undef' > does when used as an lvalue. This could also be a singleton PMC ??
I applied the safe bits of this patch. The semantics of this are still being hashed out. I will tag this in RT as applied, but not resolved.
