Thanks and encouragement

2004-11-05 Thread Milscvaer
I would like to thank and encourage everyone who is working on Perl and Perl6 for doing such wonderful work on improving and building such a wonderful tool. I really do appreciate it and i have found Perl to be the most useful and friendly languages I have used.CPAN I have found to be an

Improvements to execution and loading of bytecode programs and modules

2004-11-03 Thread Milscvaer
First, Perl ought to allow bytecode, already compiled, to be loaded via a bytecode equivelant to eval(), if this cannot be done already. This would work the same way as executing Perl code via eval(). For instance, perhaps through a new bceval function: bceval($bytecode);. In addition, Perl

Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-11-02 Thread Milscvaer
Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milscvaer writes: Running the old Perl5 interpretor and the Parrot in the same process is not a great solution, since this would mean that there would be two completely seperate interpretor codebases to support. A big part of Parrot is to allow several

Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Milscvaer
Hello, I believe it would be a very good idea and quite essential, if Perl6 is not simply a superset of Perl5 and thus by default back compatable with Perl5, for Parrot/Perl6 to also contain complete, 100% backwards compatability capability with perl5 code, either in a seperate perl5 parser