On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:21:45PM -0400, David J. Goehrig wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > Much more likely is some kind of wrapper that manages a simple > > perl5-like run-time environment (stacks, marks, gimme, symboltable > > etc) plus source-code compatibility support (macros, functions etc) > > that's just sufficient to keep old XS code happy. > > That's all I'd ask for, but the scope of that project is truly incredible. > Granted that the one could get most of their bang for their buck out of > just handling those found in perlguts, but the devil is in the details.
Of course, another approach is to embed the existing Perl5 interpreter within the Perl 6 interpreter; Perl6 subs call glue which calls Perl subs which calls perl5 XS. Dave. -- In England there is a special word which means the last sunshine of the summer. That word is "spring".
