----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Brocard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:30 AM Subject: Re: subroutines and python status
> K Stol sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Actually, I named my little project "pirate" (s. > > http://members.home.nl/joeijoei/parrot for this) already, but it's a bit of > > a dead end already (although I learnt much of it), so I don't mind. > > Quick, we need more parrot jokes... :-) > > I don't like things becoming dead-ends. How much work do you think > it'd be to extend it some more and update it to latest Lua? Well, at some point while writing the code generator, I had 2 problems. 1: I needed some Parrot features that weren't working yet, like events (I need an op to post events or something) so some essential features of the language couldn't be implemented. 2: I misdesigned the code generator; that is, at the point where I couldn't start over, it was too late, the code generator was too big already (it was unmaintainable). But because I had a time schedule, I kept it this way (the product itself wasn't the most important thing, I was writing an undergraduate report for the last semester of my education (for the record: the project served me well, I finished this education)) > Would it > be worth checking this into parrot CVS? > Only if the thing would be working, otherwise it would only be a source of confusion and frustration. Now I'm just thinking very hard to decide if I've got enough spare time to rewrite the code generator.... Klaas-Jan
