Re: in PIR, a BigInt is turning into a string against my will -- what am I doing wrong?

2007-02-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud 
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:21:45AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> (This is with parrot built from the subversion trunk, revision 16999)
> Here's a bit of PIR that demonstrates my problem:
> 
> .sub 'main' :main
> load_bytecode 'dumper.pir'
> .local ResizablePMCArray fields
> split fields, ",", "hey,you"

AFAIK, symbols like fields can't be typed beyond int, num, string, or
pmc.  So the ".local" statement above should read:

.local pmc fields

The 'split' opcode always returns a ResizableStringArray.
It might be easier to think of it as

fields = split ",", "hey,you"

(You can actually write it this way -- it's the same thing.)

So, when the BigInt is unshifted into the ResizableStringArray,
it's morphed into a string.

Hope this helps.  :-)

Pm

in PIR, a BigInt is turning into a string against my will -- what am I doing wrong?

2007-02-17 Thread Eric Hanchrow 
(This is with parrot built from the subversion trunk, revision 16999)
Here's a bit of PIR that demonstrates my problem:

.sub 'main' :main
load_bytecode 'dumper.pir'
.local ResizablePMCArray fields
split fields, ",", "hey,you"
_dumper (fields)

.local pmc big
new big, .BigInt
_dumper (big)

set big, "1234567890987654321"
_dumper (big)

unshift fields, big
_dumper (fields)
.end
;;
 ./parrot mutate.pir
"VAR1" => ResizableStringArray (size:2) [
"hey",
"you"
]
"VAR1" => PMC 'BigInt' { ... }
"VAR1" => PMC 'BigInt' { ... }
"VAR1" => ResizableStringArray (size:3) [
"1234567890987654321",
"hey",
"you"
]

;;

what's puzzling is that "big" starts out as a BigInt, but seems to get
transformed into a string when I put it into the array.  I wanted that
last dumped value to contain a BigInt followed by two strings, but
instead it's three strings.  I would have thought that making my
"fields" variable be a ResizablePMCArray would have sufficed to ensure
that, but as far as I can tell, "fields" gets transformed from a
ResizablePMCArray to a ResizableStringArray after I assign the return
value of "split" from it.  What must I do to get what I want?

Thanks
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