On 2016-01-20 5:02 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
or is it all by hand?
If you mean a source code translator, I don't know of one right now but I
wouldn't be surprised if one exists, that at least handles a common subset of
Perl 5 code. I expect having one will be a priority if it isn't around now.
Maybe around 5 years ago I recall that the Perl 5 interpreter was updated to
retain all source metadata in its parse tree partly so that this could be a
basis to generate the original Perl 5 source, or alternately generate
corresponding Perl 6 from it. See also the CPAN module PPI which may be a basis
for one.
You may not need a source translator though.
The Perl 6 module Inline::Perl5 lets you simply use Perl 5 modules in Perl 6
programs as if they were Perl 6 modules.
The source translation I'm aware of is generally by hand, and often people doing
it are also doing significant rewrites to take better advantage of the new Perl
6 features and idioms that a more mechanical automatic translation wouldn't.
Did that tell you anything useful?
-- Darren Duncan
