At 4:03 PM -0400 8/13/02, Mike Lambert wrote: > > In essence, all Perl 5 functions have a signature of (*@_ is rw). >> Perhaps the translator can turn some of those into (*@_). What'd >> really be cool is if it could pick up an initial >> >> my ($a, $b, $c) = @_; > >Excuse my ignorance here, but I thought the plan for backwards >compatibility with perl5 was to embed the Perl5 engine with Parrot, and >create thunking/compatibility interfaces between the two.
Nope, not ultimately. B:: backend first, then a perl 5 parser with requisite PMC classes. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk