At 9:50 PM +0100 6/23/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:59:33PM -0400, David J. Goehrig wrote:
>>
>> qw/ who is praying for parrot to support XS code,
>> cause he doesn't want to rewrite
>> SDL_perl's 11,000 lines /;
>
>I'm sure that's not going to happen.
>
>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.
Right. Parrot's not going to have XS as an interface--that'd be insane.
I'd like to have at least a partially compatible interface that can
be used to help the transition. Plain SV type things (getting/setting
values), and some of the AV/HV things should be doable as well.
Simple sub calling and suchlike things ought to also be doable with a
thunking layer of some sort. I don't expect most of the stuff in
perlguts, most of which is nasty to deal with, to be provided, though.
If someone wants to start a list of *sensible* entries in perl 5's
API that should be provided, we can work from there.
--
Dan
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