[perl #40156] [TODO] - Can't use an Iterator with a DynLexPad PMC

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Sat Sep 06 18:26:02 2008, cotto wrote:
> On Tue Feb 05 06:50:24 2008, coke wrote:
> > On Wed Aug 16 23:09:16 2006, mdiep wrote:
> > > I don't know how to write a test for this off the top of my head, 
but  
> > > Iterator and DynLexPad don't play well together atm. When I tried, 
I  
> > > got this error:
> > > 
> > >      elements() not implemented in class 'DynLexPad'
> > > 
> > > Is there an easy way to make an arbitrary hash-like PMC 
(DynLexPad,  
> > > NameSpace, etc.) play well with iterator?
> > > 
> > > Tcl needs to be able to iterate over the keys to return a list of 
all  
> > > the variables in the current procedure/lexpad. (See [info vars])
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Matt Diephouse
> > > 
> > 
> > A nice cage task would be to write a test demonstrating the use of 
an
> > iterator in this case.
> 
> As of r30844 there's a TODO'd test for this, but some work will need 
to
> be done to make DynLexPads (and LexPads, incidentally) iterable.  
Since
> DynLexPads are based on Hashes, I imagine most of the work will be in
> adapting get_iter and get_*_keyed.

The TODO'd test here is flawed - it contains debug out that will never 
match. It also assumes that the lexpad's iter will return things in 
order, which seems overly optimistic.

A potential fix to the not-providing-iter solution is to just have this 
PMC extend Hash.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda