Re: [perl #37700] [TODO] Changing Default STDOUT/STDERR Filehandles for PIR Code

On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:40:32 Allison Randal via RT wrote:

> The simple solution is to add opcodes for 'setstdin', 'setstdout', and
> 'setstderr' that change the interpreter's stored FileHandle PMCs to a
> PMC passed in as an argument. This will not effect any C code that
> directly calls the low-level read/write functions instead of using the
> Parrot_io_* functions, but then C code should pretty much always use the
> Parrot_io_* functions. (Some exceptions to the general rule apply, like
> when the code specifically needs to override any user changes to
> STD[IN|OUT|ERR]).

Do these need to be opcodes?  Can they be methods on the interpreter instead?

-- c