Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)

2002-03-30 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Michel J Lambert wrote in perl.perl6.language : Has anyone done any thinking along the lines of how we are implementing the Perl 6 grammer? Simon Cozens did. I don't know the details exactly. Note also that the grammar and the parser are not the difficult part; the perl 5 lexer is very

Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)

2002-03-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:23:26PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: Too late. I'm going there... :) Good for you. I was hoping transformations could make it :) Here's something I was wondering. Say you wanted to write a pow() macro (from a previous example) that would forward to C's pow() unless

Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)

2002-03-30 Thread Michel J Lambert
Too late. I'm going there... :) Good for you. I was hoping transformations could make it :) Why didn't you chime in support before, then? I feel like Aaron and I are the only ones who are opinionated on this matter... Here's something I was wondering. Say you wanted to write a pow() macro