On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, David Grove wrote:
> Ok, my C's rather rusty, but are we interested in parsing that?
Yes. I've heard people talk about a C frontend. Will it ever see the
light? I don't know. Does it matter? I don't think so.
> Is Perl going to provide API to access pointers through source
> code?
Perl 6 wouldn't be the first to do so for Perl if it did. Check out SWIG.
I'm guessing that's not the route that a C frontend for Perl would take
but who knows!
> The point is, to accomplish the goal the way it's being expressed
> would be to provide the ability to do anything with perl internals
> that can be done in any other language that has ever existed, and
> leave the flexibility to do everything that every other language will
> ever do in the future.
Actually, we're just talking about allowing people to write parsers for
other syntaxes that produce Perl 6 syntax trees. Wether sufficient
skill and interest exists to build such a beast for any given syntax is
another question.
The kind of stuff you're interested in - mild twists on the Perl syntax -
will also be possible, hopefully easy. Easy things easy, hard things
possible, right? Are you saying you don't think we should make it
possible for someone to write a C parser for Perl?
-sam
