IDL is not a context free grammar, so you cannot fully parse it without implementing a runtime. Perl is the same way. That was the legal stone that broke VERNIER (and led to my PDL involvement) so long, long ago.
(Mobile) On May 3, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Derek Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there license restrictions that would come into play? At one time I had > the thought to make a Inline::PDL::IDL module. But I didn't want to make > Perl/PDL an IDL interpreter, and potentially awaken the RSI legal beast. But > apparently the gnudatalanguage people have a drop-in interpreter for IDL .pro > files, so maybe writing a translator isn't such a big deal. And maybe > MathWorks doesn't care what you do with Matlab files. > > Derek > > On May 3, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > >> I'm often needing to collaborate or interoperate with Matlab >> users. Eventually, I would like to see the ability to call PDL >> routines from Matlab and vice-versa. In the near term, a >> M-file import wizard might be more implementable. >> >> The idea is to import an M-file, parse and convert what >> we can do correctly (in theory, we could compile to PDL >> completely), and provide stubs for any missing or >> untranslated functions. The hope would be to produce >> a .pdl file version that will compile (if not run). >> >> Initial functionality: >> - convert loop constructs >> - identify variables and add $ to the names >> - convert index limits >> - generate function stubs to be filled in >> - fix limits on dimensions >> >> Just having the first few items addressed would be a >> big help in reducing the effort and possible errors in >> .m <-> .pdl file conversions. It might make sense to >> have an import plugin for Padre as well. >> >> Thoughts? >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
