Re: vtables: Assignment vs. Aliasing

2001-02-11 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:35:18PM -0200, Branden wrote: > It [aliasing] means that the behaviour of $a/@a/%a is felt on $b/@b/%b, and > vice-versa, so that they are both the same thing. In vtable terms, the > vtable of $b/@b/%b would get copied to $a/@a/%a No, no, not at all. Aliasing is a feat

Re: Garbage collection

2001-02-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
crossed to -internals Jan Dubois: > Not necessarily; you would have to implement it that way: When you try to > open a file and you don't succeed, you run the garbage collector and try > again. But what happens in the case of XS code: some external library > tries to open a file and gets a failu

Re: Garbage collection

2001-02-11 Thread Jan Dubois
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:30:30 -0500, "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >crossed to -internals Ok, I removed -language. >Jan Dubois: >> Not necessarily; you would have to implement it that way: When you try to >> open a file and you don't succeed, you run the garbage collector and try