From @chromatic

From masak in IRC today​:

  class A {}; say A.new
  <polyglotbot> OUTPUT[get_string() not implemented in class 'A'

The attached patch fixes that, but it doesn't work yet due to some sneaky
inheritance in P6Object. This has to wait on changes to vtable declaration
and identification.

-- c

From @chromatic

=== languages/perl6/src/classes/Object.pir
==================================================================
--- languages/perl6/src/classes/Object.pir	(revision 29799)
+++ languages/perl6/src/classes/Object.pir	(local)
@@ -87,6 +87,18 @@
     .return $P0.'hash'()
 .end
 
+.sub 'get_string' :vtable :method
+    .local string what
+    what  = self.'WHAT'()
+
+    .local string name
+    name  = '<obj:'
+    name .= what
+    name .= '>'
+
+    .return( name )
+.end
+
 =item item()
 
 Return the scalar component of the invocant.  For most objects,

From @jnthn

On Sat Jul 26 12​:28​:54 2008, chromatic@​wgz.org wrote​:

From masak in IRC today​:

class A \{\}; say A\.new
\<polyglotbot> OUTPUT\[get\_string\(\) not implemented in class 'A'

The attached patch fixes that, but it doesn't work yet due to some sneaky
inheritance in P6Object. This has to wait on changes to vtable
declaration
and identification.

pmichaud has done this in r32373, so I think this ticket is now
redundant; closing.

Thanks,

Jonathan

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@jnthn - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'