Re: PMC flags

[email protected] (Leopold Toetsch) Wed, 04 May 2005 21:34:16 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Dave Mitchell wrote:

> So pseduo-code like
> 
>     if (pmc->vtable->is_IOK())
> 	...
>     else if (pmc->vtable->is_NOK())
> 	...
> 
> becomes
> 
>     status = pmc->vtable->status();
>     if (status & IOK)
> 	...
>     else if (status & NOK)

That would still need to rewrite all but 1% of perl5 code and doesn't 
help XS.

 > #include <std disclaimer about me knowing almost zilch about parrot>

 > Dave

the zilch .. perl5 .. leo