Re: Welcome to Perl Vtbls

2000-08-15 Thread Larry Wall
Chaim Frenkel writes: : I can't see how objectA's vtbl can handle a cross-operation to objectB's : vtbl. : : Enlightenment sought. I'm mostly just trying to bust us out of conventional thinking by throwing random words around. I don't know offhand whether multimethod dispatch would make any sen

Re: Welcome to Perl Vtbls

2000-08-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This discussion of vtbls and how to do cross products has me confused. > >I thought there were two different _real_ vtbls and an op tree. > >The low-level core 'objects' have a vtbl that handles operations on >the object itself. That is the one we are t

Re: Welcome to Perl Vtbls

2000-08-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:11 AM 8/15/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: >This discussion of vtbls and how to do cross products has me confused. > >I thought there were two different _real_ vtbls and an op tree. > >The low-level core 'objects' have a vtbl that handles operations on >the object itself. Right, those are vt

Welcome to Perl Vtbls

2000-08-15 Thread Chaim Frenkel
This discussion of vtbls and how to do cross products has me confused. I thought there were two different _real_ vtbls and an op tree. The low-level core 'objects' have a vtbl that handles operations on the object itself. The higher level perl user objects have a vtbl that handles method dispa