Perl 6

SMOP p6opaque Implementation: Revision 19

The p6opaque Responder Interface is the default responder for all Perl 6 objects, according to the [SMOP OO API].

^ p6opaque Structure

* instanceof
* WHENCE
* metadata
** how # the object that handles meta calls.
** package
** isa
*** count
*** array
** does
*** count
*** array
** class storage
*** optimal_count # attributes that have a constant identifier as name
*** optimal_array
**** constant identifier
**** value
*** count
*** array
**** name
**** value
** attributes
*** optimal_count # attributes that have a constant identifier as name
*** optimal_array
**** constant identifier
**** attribute
*** count
*** array
**** name
**** attribute
** methods
*** optimal_count # methods that have a constant identifier as name
*** optimal_array
**** constant identifier
**** count
**** array
*** count
*** array
**** name
**** count
**** array
* instance storage
** count
** array of packages
*** optimal_count # constant identifier names
*** optimal_array
**** constant identifier
**** value
*** count
*** array
**** name
**** value

^ Implementation

Several low-level implementations will be needed in order to deploy p6opaque features, all this implementations will represent a "community" of responder interfaces that know the p6opaque structure. The additional responder interfaces are not public, and can only be accessed from the p6opaque implementation.

Below follows the list of low-level responder interfaces in the p6opaque "community".

* SMOP__p6opaque__RI
* SMOP__p6opaque__Scalar__whence
* SMOP__p6opaque__Array__isa
* SMOP__p6opaque__Array__does
* SMOP__p6opaque__Hash__private_storage
* SMOP__p6opaque__Hash__class_storage
* SMOP__p6opaque__Array__methods
* SMOP__p6opaque__Array__attributes
* SMOP__p6opaque__Scalar__package
* SMOP__p6opaque__Hash__properties
* SMOP__p6opaque__List__can