Re: [perl #41825] [BUG] morph vtable override not working in PIR

[email protected] (Andrew Whitworth) Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:36:13 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Worthington
>> I'm curious - is anyone else doing a HLL on Parrot that uses morph? If
>> nobody is, is it worth spending time on, or even worth keeping?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>

Even if the morph opcode isn't used often, the morph VTABLE interface
is used quite a bit internally. There really isn't any easier and
still standard way of changing between types for PMCs. It certainly
beats having to invoke PMC methods internally to switch between types.

--Andrew Whitworth