Re: [perl #15574] [PATCH] RECALL renamed to AVOID

How Freudian can you get.  The subject on this email should have been RECALL
renamed to AGAIN.  It took me until now to realize this.

Sorry,
Tanton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanton Gibbs (via RT)" <bugs-parrot@netlabs.develooper.com>
To: <bugs-bitbucket@rt.perl.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: [perl #15574] [PATCH] RECALL renamed to AVOID


> # New Ticket Created by  "Tanton Gibbs"
> # Please include the string:  [perl #15574]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15574 >
>
>
> This patch implements the AGAIN pmc preprocessor command.  AGAIN should be
> used after a PMC type change.  For example, the following function
> illustrates AGAIN:
>
> # in perlint.pmc
> void set_string( PMC* string ) {
>   CHANGE_TYPE( SELF, PerlString );
>   AGAIN;
> }
>
> In this situation, AGAIN calls set_string on SELF's
> vtable which now points to a perl string PMC type.  This
> ensures that the same semantics are kept no matter what PMC type is used
and
> if any problems are found, they only have to be fixed in one place.
>
> I also added comments to pmc2c.pl to explain what
> the program was doing.  I added a sample grammar
> at the top, etc..
>
> Finally, I made some minor style modifications to perlint.pmc and
> perlnum.pmc.
>
> Thanks,
> Tanton
>
>
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