Ter, 2008-07-22 às 15:37 -0700, chromatic escreveu: > The wiki page at: > http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?inter_hll_mapping_notes > seems to be missing the rationale for *why* it's necessary to map types > between languages?
I've added a little reasoning on the top of the article. > (Also see "If Perl 6 has to care about the internal > storage format of an Integer PMC, it's doing something very wrong.") The point is the exact opposite case. Perl 6 cares too little about the internal storage format for any object for it to be really possible to make automatic typemappings easy. daniel