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From:
John Porter
Date:
July 16, 2002 14:42
Subject:
Re: vtables and multimethod dispatch
Message ID:
20020716214150.75775.qmail@web10802.mail.yahoo.com

John Porter wrote:
> The point is that this type schema is at the parrot level,
> and is not the concern of a user-level language like perl

Of course this is not really true; perl scalars, arrays, and
hashes (etc.?) are implemented as PMCs under the hood, so
in that sense they are related by whatever familial 
associations exist between their respective PMC types.

-- 
JohnDouglasPorter

Remind me later to explain why all PMCs are of the same type,
but of various different classes.


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