On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 00:07, Adam Kennedy <a...@ali.as> wrote:
> The complexity of a multi-language META specification (and I've
> actually written one as an experiment in the past) requires a
> something other than (and bigger than) META.yml
All you need to support any language is to:
1. Allow language => or something like it
2. Allow extensions to the format. META 2.0 does this via its X_* keys.
Before ^1 was removed from the spec I couldn't think of a language
that couldn't be shoe-horned into it with some custom X_* keys. Even
without ^1 it can still be hacked in by just requiring version X of
"some_module_name_that_is_a_language". It's just more hacky.
Perl 6's idea of modules isn't finalized. But meanwhile something like this:
class Dog:auth<mailto:jran...@some.com>:ver<1.2.1>;
Can be expressed in META.yml like this:
X_auth => { mailto => 'jran...@some.com' },
X_ver => '1.2.1',
etc. Can you think of anything that can't be supported like this and a
custom indexer that reads the magic X_* values?
