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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl6-internals
perl6-internals
Re: Lexical variables, scratchpads, closures, ...
by Sean O'Rourke other posts by this author
Aug 1 2002 5:23PM messages near this date
Re: Lexical variables, scratchpads, closures, ... | parrot reading from stdin
On 31 Jul 2002, Jonathan Sillito wrote:
>  > >     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?

> 

>  This also is not implemented (unless Sean O'Rourke's recent patch does

>  this?) However the Sub (or Coroutine, or Continuation, or ...) PMC could

>  have the responsibility of putting the correct context in place before

>  actually jumping to the body of the sub. Melvin's code in sub.c has a

>  start on this, I think ...


Melvin did have stubs in place to do this, and I've played with it a bit.
The version on the list does not do this, however.

/s


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