I believe that the idea is to make things flexible enough that FURTHER changes to Perl, beyond Perl 6, will be easier too.
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 06:10, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Bergmann) writes: > > > Leon Brocard wrote: > > > Oh, this happens to be a FAQ. The main reason is: > > > > > > http://www.parrotcode.org/faq/ > > > > I know the technical reason for a new VM, but this could've been a new > > VM for Perl 6 only. What I'd like to know is the motivation to open up > > the architecture and allow for plugable parser, compilers, bytecode > > generators / optimizers, ... > > Because if we can support [insert random language here] then we can > support a very flexible Perl 6 language. Or the other way around. > > > - ask > > -- > ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do();
