----- Original Message ----- From: "Michal Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "K Stol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:25 AM Subject: generic code generator? [was: subroutines and python status]
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, K Stol wrote: > > > > From: "Leon Brocard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > > > 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? > ... > > 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.... At this moment, I'm looking at a new version of Lua, the previous 'pirate' compiled (well, sort of :-) Lua 4 Lua 5 has some features, such as coroutines (If I remembered well) and all kinds of neat stuff for which Parrot has built-in support (and it dropped some/a feature(s) from Lua 4). I think I'll try to create a parser for Lua 5, and to recreate a Lua/Parrot compiler (should go a lot easier now that I had the time to think about the errors I made). > > Hmm. I've only messed around with Lua for a few hours > though, and it was several months ago, but the Lua > language seems to be pretty similar to python. A few days ago I had a look at Python, and I noticed the similarities, too. Also the fact that python was noted to be a language that can be used in an embedded way reminded me of this similarity (Lua was more or less created for this: extending/embedding). > > Really, there's a ton of overlap between the various > "high level" languages that parrot wants to support. > Maybe we could put together a generic code generator > that everyone could use? Obviously, it would have to > be set up so you could override the parts for each > language, but it shouldn't be too terribly hard. Sounds like quite a challenge, but a good idea, and I think worth a try. > > What do you think? Want to try squishing pirate/python > and pirate/lua together? :) Yeah, I like the idea. Let's try this out. Klaas-Jan > > Sincerely, > > Michal J Wallace > Sabren Enterprises, Inc. > ------------------------------------- > contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > hosting: http://www.cornerhost.com/ > my site: http://www.withoutane.com/ > -------------------------------------- > > >
