Parrot directory structure

2002-02-03 Thread davem
Parroteers, I've been thinking about the directory structure of Parrot. Currently, the top-level dir is a bit of mess, with zillions of files of various flavours. It is my contention that apart from a few expected files such as README, MANIFEST, Configure.pl etc, everything else should be in

Re: Butt-ugliness reduction

2001-11-17 Thread davem
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Mitchell wrote: * Is there ever any need to for a PMC type which holds both an int and a num? In the Perl 5 case we were constrained by code that expected to always find an int (or a num) in a fixed slot in the SV; with PMCs, all access

Re: Master-Apprentice and a sneak peek

2001-06-17 Thread davem
Simon, Here (finally) is that list of SV functions. I ran out of time to trawl through the pp*.c files, so this is based only on what I found in sv.c. Dave M. This a grouping and summary of the functions in sv.c (ignoring the strictly local ones). The grouping scheme is probably a bit