Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:20:06 Will Coleda wrote:

> As I understand it, box is designed to deal /only/ with promoting the
> 3 basic register types (SIN) to PMCs of the appropriate HLL type (just
> like autoboxing in PCC), not to provide a way to promote literal
> values for arbitrary core PMCs. So the discontinuity is that not every
> core PMC has a corresponding register type.

Yes.

> I think a more general approach might be to have an opcode that
> combined 'new' and 'assign'. You could even have it respect the HLL
> mappings if present.

If Lua has dynops, this is easy.  If Lua doesn't have dynops, this could 
easily be a function.

-- c