[Pdl-devel] PDL magic is not PERL magic?

2016-05-04 Thread Chris Marshall
I was looking at the PDL/Basic/Core for how the magic was used and discovered that we appear to have a PDL magic implementation that is similar to perl's but specific to PDL. Is this correct? I'm interested because the idea of controlling a vtable is tied with ideas for PDL Next Gen. --Chri

Re: [Pdl-devel] PDL magic is not PERL magic?

2016-05-04 Thread Craig DeForest
We do have a parallel implementation of something magic-like: hooks to kick off a process on evaluation of a PDL. The "PDL magic" hooks, IIRC, are to kick off lazy dataflow — e.g. “EquivCPOffsets” blocks in PP, or anything involving the internal “trans" structure. I am pretty sure they’re not