Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-09 Thread Simon Cozens
Dan Sugalski: > At 6:07 PM -0500 4/4/02, Melvin Smith wrote: > >I also remember there was work already in progress, Simon Cozens mailed > >out a tokenizer and I recall Damian Conway saying he was going to deliver > >a parser (maybe I'm confused as I often am)? I assume this could be reused, > >els

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 11:12 AM +0100 1/2/70, James A Duncan wrote: >>Morning (BST) all, >> >> I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot >> translation engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it >&

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:07 PM -0500 4/4/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >I also remember there was work already in progress, Simon Cozens mailed >out a tokenizer and I recall Damian Conway saying he was going to deliver >a parser (maybe I'm confused as I often am)? I assume this could be reused, >else we end up with 2 archi

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:12 AM +0100 1/2/70, James A Duncan wrote: >Morning (BST) all, > >I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot >translation engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it >successfully translating things like: > >my $perliv = 10; >

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:02:19AM +0100, James Duncan wrote: > The biggest issue that I can immediately foresee is Perl 5 Regular > Expressions. Currently they occupy (I think) one op in perl. This is a > problem, as also not on my Fun Things To Do list is grokking the regex > engine, and then

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-05 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Melvin Smith wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > It sounds like what you are embarking on is a compiler implementation > with a full grammar, etc. Right? Not at all, he wants to reuse the perl 5 parser to generate parrot opcodes from perl 5 opcodes. > I also remember there was work already in p

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-05 Thread James Duncan
On 4/4/02 10:21 pm, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James A Duncan wrote in perl.perl6.internals : >> >> I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot translation >> engine. Its

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-04 Thread Melvin Smith
At 11:12 AM 1/2/1970 +0100, James A Duncan wrote: >Morning (BST) all, > >I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot translation >engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it successfully >translating things like: > >my $perliv = 10; >

Re: Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-04 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
James A Duncan wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot translation > engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it successfully > translating things like: > > my $perliv = 10; > my $perlpv =

Perl 5 to Parrot

2002-04-04 Thread James A Duncan
Morning (BST) all, I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot translation engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it successfully translating things like: my $perliv = 10; my $perlpv = "\n"; print $perliv; print $perlpv; into working, assem