Re: Storing external data in PMCs

[email protected] (Melvin Smith)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 02:56 PM 10/27/2003 +0000, Arthur Bergman wrote:
>So I am currently trying to do a Perl5LVALUE pmc, a stumbling block is 
>however that I need to pass the PMC the thing that it is lvalueling, I was 
>planning to use the pmc data field for storing this but I cannot access it 
>as a extender without violating the API and guessing at layouts which is 
>kind of bad (Dan says so ;)

I don't know Perl5 internals enough to know exactly what Perl5LVALUE
does. Do you want a way to pass a value to the PMC and let the PMC type morph
itself based on the data representation?

-Melvin
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