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Re: [perl #15340] [PATCH] Boolean PMC

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From:
Melvin Smith
Date:
July 22, 2002 16:59
Subject:
Re: [perl #15340] [PATCH] Boolean PMC
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20020722195235.03002658@pop.mindspring.com
At 07:45 PM 7/22/2002 -0400, Melvin Smith wrote:
>At 05:47 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>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.

Err let me rephrase that:

Language "Foo" may need a Boolean PMC, and if it does, implementing
it is fine. I just don't feel it belongs as a "core" PMC.

-Melvin



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