On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Peter Haworth wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:39:52 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 7:29 PM -0700 1/7/03, John Williams wrote: > > >Perhaps you could explain how the $0 object will work in your mind. > > >A5 assert that $0 is a object, and it behaves as an array and a hash, > > >depending on how you subscript it. Typeglobs are gone, and we're all > > >hoping the TIE interface is gone too, so how will this effect be > > >accomplished? > > > > All variables in parrot are implemented as PMCs, and all PMCs may be > > accessed with a string, integer, or PMC subscript or set of > > subscripts. For PMCs that don't do subscripting this will be a fatal > > error, for those that do it'll do whatever the PMC is supposed to do. > > (In the case of $0, do the lookup) > > That's phrased like it's the type of the subscript value which determines > whether it's a hash-like or array-like access. Shouldn't it be the type of > brackets which do that?
Yes, that's what I meant, even if I didn't say it clearly. "How you subscript it" would be either "with brackets" or "with braces". ~ John Williams
