[RFC] Adding "does array does hash" to the Capture PMC

Tyler Curtis tyler.l.curtis at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 02:23:39 UTC 2010


I've learned that NQP relies on Capture not providing "array" to
distinguish between multiple results and single results from a regex
match. For this reason, Capture should continue to not provide "array"
for now, at least.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Tyler Curtis <tyler.l.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Capture PMC consists of an array and a hash, to which it delegates
> array-related and hash-related vtables. Is there any reason why it
> should not "provide" the "array" and "hash" roles? If not, I'm going
> to making such a change in my GSoC branch(in order to facilitate some
> changes that will help generalize the PAST::* libraries I've been
> developing so that bacek's PIR compiler can use them). There are
> other ways I could implement it, but the most straightforward would
> require Capture to provide both "array" and "hash".
>
> --
> Tyler Curtis
>



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Tyler Curtis


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