[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

[Greg Ewing]

Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>:

> In this case, the vtable interface doesn't cover general method
> calls ... The vtable interface, at the moment, covers the 
> operators you'd expect to be able to override--assignment, simple math, 
> most string operations, conversion duties, and suchlike things.

It sounds like a vtable is very similar to a Python TypeObject,
the main difference being that TypeObjects are first-class
objects.

TypeObjects are immutable, though - you can't use Python code to
change one of it's method slots. Whereas, if I understand you
correctly, you can use Perl code to change a method in a vtable?

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