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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl6-internals
perl6-internals
Re: Lexical variables, scratchpads, closures, ...
by Jerome Vouillon other posts by this author
Jul 31 2002 7:49PM messages near this date
Re: Lexical variables, scratchpads, closures, ... | Re: Lexical variables, scratchpads, closures, ...
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:40:39AM -0600, Jonathan Sillito wrote:
>      new_pad   # push this on the lexical stack

>                # some constant descriptor should also be passed

>                # to the new_pad op which would then know about

>                # the lexical variable 'x', and would create an

>                # associated pointer object


Do you really need a stack?
When is the pointer object created?

>      invoke    # assumes sub is in P0

>                # on invoke the sub pmc fixes the current

>                # context to have the correct lexicals


Can you elaborate on this?  What is done precisely to fix the current
context?

-- Jerome


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