On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jeff Clites wrote:
> I think that no matter what the approach, there's an unavoidable
> mismatch between Perl and Python when it comes to variable naming, it's
> going to be a bit awkward to access Perl variables from within Python.
...
> 1) Treat Perl variables as having the sigil as part of the name.
..
> For Python, the problem with (1) is that no Perl variables will have
> legal names from Python's point of view. With (2), the variable names
> are okay for Python, but Python doesn't have the concept of multiple
> categories of variables.
Hey Jeff,
I think this would be just fine.
Languages like ruby and scheme allow
identifiers that aren't valid names
in perl OR python:
rubyThing.sort!
(is-this-true? (> scheme-var 1))
And heaven forbid you want to talk about
perl's other variables: $! , $> $@ , etc...
I've always kind of pictured something
like this:
>>> import parrot
>>> parrot.load("perl","AI::Fuzzy")
>>> f = parrot["perl::AI::Fuzzy::Label"]
>>> f.addlabel("...")
- Michal
http://withoutane.com/
