On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:05:57 Allison Randal wrote:
> We've been kicking around the idea of removing new_from_string for a
> while, but the pushback is always that it's useful to be able to create
> a new PMC with some initialization data, without first creating a PMC
> initializer that has to be garbage collected. So, instead of removing it
> entirely, make it a standard initialization option, passing a string
> argument instead of a PMC argument.
A C string or a STRING string?
(The latter are STRING initializers which have to be garbage collected.)
> Note, this will require changes to the "new" opcode, and to the
> low-level initialization functions ("pmc_new", etc). But, at least it'll
> be consistent, instead of a lone crack-headed different way of
> instantiating PMCs.
Crack removal ++;
Is one of the changes to the new opcode adding a _s variant? Is one of the
changes to pmc_new adding an optional parameter, or a new pmc_new_some_suffix
version?
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