At 12:11 PM 4/16/01 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >There are a number of reasons to *not* claim to parse perl 5 code. > >*) We won't load any perl 5 XS code >*) We won't be getting the corner cases, and perl5 has a *lot*. >*) It complicates the interpreter if we need to add code to support things >that perl 6 doesn't do. (*ocugh*typegobs*cough*) >*) It makes the parser that much more work to write. Even if we switch >parser code entirely when going from perl 5 to perl 6 and back, someone >still has to write the code in the first place. >*) It's even more complexity, which is just that much more stuff we can >potentially break >*) It sets up the expectation (rightly so, IMNSHO) in the user community >that we eat and process all perl 5 code correctly, and we just aren't >going to. Despite our best efforts we're not going to. As a very low-tech solution, why not bundle perl 5 *with* perl 6 so that once perl 6 detects that it's been fed perl 5 code, it can send it to the perl 5 compiler/interpreter. Yeah, I know it makes the resulting bundle huge, but at least it separates the tasks of parsing perl5 and perl 6 into independent projects. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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- Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Simon Cozens
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Simon Cozens
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Peter Scott
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Nathan Wiger
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Peter Scott
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
- RE: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... David Whipp
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Edward Peschko
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalyp... Dan Sugalski
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