--- On Mon, 4/1/10, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com>
> >If Parrot itself supports trans-language calls (which > I'm led to > >understand it can?) then a single index gives us the > potentially huge > >win of cross-language dependencies. > > Does it? Tell me how the second API should work and > how to build that > index: > > look_in_index($language, $name, $author, $version); > > look_in_index($name, $author, $version); From the Rakudo test suite: use perl5:Text::Wrap 'wrap'; That currently doesn't work, but the intention is certainly there. I've already wanted to rewrite Term::Screen using Perl 5's Term::Cap as a dependency (because rewriting the latter is proving to be a nightmare) and when it's ready, how do I declare that my P6 code has a P5 dependency? > Or, Ricardo gets to keep Config::INI and Curtis has to wait > for p5 support in parrot? Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry to get this on the CPAN :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
