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From:
Bryan C. Warnock
Date:
February 23, 2002 20:42
Subject:
Re: #defined types
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On Saturday 23 February 2002 23:35, Brent Dax wrote:
> The Magic Word in this case is "embedders".
>
> a) We can't reserve "any symbol starting with 'P'" to Parrot. That's a
> little too wide a scope.
Well, Phuck.
> b) I'd rather not have embedders worrying about "is this a value type or
> a pointer type?". They don't *want* to learn about Parrot's internals,
> they just want to *use* Parrot. Questions like "does this type have to
> be declared as a pointer?" interfere with questions like "how should I
> best write this parser?".
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Bryan C. Warnock
bwarnock@capita.com
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