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

Reply via email to