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At 05:47 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Opefully, this can be accepted ;) > >Do pmc files get turned pretty directly into C code? Yep. >And if pmc files get turned pretty directly into C code, do the C++ style >comments stay in there? If yes and yes, then the patch won't be acceptable >as is. We need to use /* */ comments only, as // isn't valid in C89. Right, as usual. >(apart from that I don't know enough about anything perl6 to know whether >this is a good idea, and if so whether this is the best way to implement the >idea. Someone else knowledgeable will have to comment) I think boolean is a language dependant thing and probably shouldn't be implemented as a PMC. For some languages, boolean can be optimized all the way down to the JIT level, and I'm not sure which languages would actually want to use it as a PMC. But keep those patches coming! :) -MelvinThread Previous | Thread Next