On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > 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.
How would you deal with passing references? Tim.
