> >The vtable looks a lot like Python's type object. Is Perl's vtable an > >object in its own right? > > Depends on your definition of object, I suppose. There is a mapping from > the low-level bits the interpreter needs to interpreted-language level > things--while the vtable won't actually be directly manipulatable at the > HLL level, manipulating HLL constructs will alter the vtable, so it's > effectively the same thing. In Python, the type pointer really does point to a full-fledged object. Which probably means something quite different than it means in Perl. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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