Michal Wallace writes:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> > Should go something like this:
> >
> > .sub _main
> > .local object Cat
> > .local object felix
> > newclass Cat, "Cat"
> > find_type $I0, "Cat"
> > felix = new $I0
> > # ...
> > .end
>
>
> Thanks, but that doesn't work either. :/
> The "new" op expects an identifier. It won't
> take a VAR, IREG, or REG.
Er, sorry, that's IMCC's fault. This works:
new felix, $I0
>
> > But note that objects are unfinished. I ran into a certain problem
> > when I assumed that attributes could be any type of data; not so --
> > they can only be integers (at the moment). I needed object support
> > right away, so I simulated using a hash. The hash has a "CLASS" key
> > which holds the class to which it belongs. I then use this to get
> > the methods.
>
> I'm not even trying to get objects working yet. I just
> need something that'll let me run setprop on it so my
> generators can make iterator "things" with a .next()
> attached to them... I was using ParrotObjects and
> ParrotClasss for a while but now you can't make a
> new ParrotObject directly either. :/
I know PerlArray accepts and stores properties: my compiler uses them.
PerlHash probably does too.
And thanks again for all the work you're doing on Python :-)
Luke
> Incidentally, anyone know why not? In python or
> javascript it's easy to just create an object of
> no particular class just to have a place to stick
> things.
>
> foo = object()
> foo.x = 1
>
> It was working fine in parrot too, but then it
> went away. :/
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michal J Wallace
> Sabren Enterprises, Inc.
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