On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:12:35AM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> The issues of 'use Python' or 'use Pythonish' are a quite different issue.
> I don't think anyone believes it ought to be easy to *write* the Pythonish
> module. But it ought to be *possible*.
Incidentally, it's possible in Perl 5. Very possible; I'm just about to
finish off a module called B::Generate which allows you to create your
own op trees - it's basically B but with get/set methods instead of get
methods, plus constructors for all the classes.
Although I haven't tested this yet, if you have a source filter which
implements a parser for your favourite language and uses B::Generate to spit
out an op tree and point Perl at the root of it, instant Python interpreter!
Well, maybe not exactly *instant*, but... :)
As a very simple example, the following program prints "-5" by replacing
"add" with "subtract":
#!/usr/bin/perl
use B::Generate;
CHECK{
my ($x, $y,$z);
$x = B::main_start;
for ($x = B::main_start; $x->type != 62; $x=$x->next){ # Find "add"
$y=$x; # $y is the op before "add"
};
$z = new B::BINOP("subtract",0,$x->first, $x->last); # Create replacement
$z->next($x->next); # Copy add's "next" across.
$y->next($z); # Tell $y to point to replacement op.
}
$a = 10; $b = 15; print $a + $b;
--
Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
