Re: Data::Swap and ponie

At 6:20 PM +0200 10/11/04, Matthijs van Duin wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:52:52AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>Yeek. Looks like Data::Swap swaps the contents of two SVs.
>>
>>Should we have an equivalent API entry for Parrot? (I'm presuming 
>>this is useful, but I'm nervous about allowing it as it can break 
>>static assumptions about types)
>
>It can already break things in perl5.  If you do:
>
>swap \$x, \@y;
>
>you're going to help yourself into a world of hurt.

Ah, point. Fair 'nuff -- I'll add support for this into parrot with 
the big caveat "Yes, we *do* allow you to shoot yourself in the 
<insert body part here> if you want". :)

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