[perl #40124] [TODO] Document HLL mappings

Christoph Otto via RT parrotbug-followup at parrotcode.org
Sun Mar 22 07:47:13 UTC 2009


On Thu Oct 16 10:25:39 2008, Whiteknight wrote:
> On Fri Nov 10 11:19:58 2006, chip wrote:
> > It's already true that HLLs can remap the basic types so that e.g.
> > parameter
> > passing creates a PerlArray rather than a base array.  However the
> > mechanism is
> > not documented (AFAIK), and it should be.
> 
> Haven't heard any information about this ticket in two years. I did a
> quick look-through and didn't see any documentation about HLL mapping.
> Considering it's been such a big topic in Rakudo development lately
> (among other things) maybe we have some people now willing to write some
> quick documentation about it? Or, if somebody can point me to the
> relevant code, I can try to hack together some docs for it.
> 

I'd guess that the current relevant code is ParrotIntepreteter's
hll_map() method and that this ticket can be closed once that method and
its implementation are sufficiently documented.  Is this correct?


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