On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:52:47PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
>
> Also for the record from the weekly meeting (which was actually today,
> just a very long today): Yes, compilers are objects and compilation is a
> method call. The compiler for TGE tree grammars is implemented this way,
> and it's a very usable interface.
Our messages crossed in the mail.
> We might want to resurrect the 'compile' opcode as an indirect syntax
> for making the 'compile' method call.
Maybe, but I can't see that this is worthy of a special opcode
(and presumably a vtable slot?). There's just not a lot of
difference between:
$P0 = compile mycompiler, code # compile opcode
$P0 = mycompiler.'compile'(code) # Parrot convention
Another advantage of using (true) method calls is that
it's easy to pass options and additional arguments to the
compiler:
$P0 = mycompiler.'compile'(code, 'target'=>'parse')
Pm
