Re: [perl #31938] [PATCH] add missing get_repr() op

Stéphane Payrard <stef@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:14:29PM -0000, Leopold Toetsch via RT wrote:
>> Stephane Payrard <parrotbug-followup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +++ ./ops/pmc.ops  2004-10-11 22:30:10.819391992 +0200
>>
>> > +op get_repr(out STR, in PMC) {
>> > +    $1 = $2->vtable->get_repr(interpreter, $2);
>> > +    goto NEXT();
>>
>> To op or not to op that's again the question. Pie-thon code just does:
>>
>>   $Py = $Px."repr"()
>>
>> or some such.

> That's the point. I have not yet figured out a way to access that
> vtable entry short of creating an opcode.

With the --python switch a C<repr> NCI method gets attached to the
ParrotObject PMC, which all PMCs inherit from, when method lookup is
done.

But anyway, the opcode is useful for testing, so the patch is applied
now.

> --
>   stef

leo