hi there, In a lost moment, I came across a parrotsketch log where people wondered what's the deal with PIRC, and that it needs a champion. (for the new people: I started PIRC) I'm happy to help people by answering questions or guiding people through the code. However, I have too little time to do more coding; mostly because it's been too long that I've worked on it, which would take a lot of time to get back into it, but also because I'm stuck, and I don't want to spend too much time on doing things that doesn't help it further.
If there's anybody out there that feels like taking it on, please feel free to ask as many questions as you can (can't guarantee I can answer them all ;-). Also, I've been pondering on alternatives; I've come to realize that PIRC itself has become quite a big program with complexities of its own. Perhaps the alternative would be to have a critical look at the PIR language itself. In the end, it's not PIR that's going to be used much; it's just a notation for doing low-level stuff. Ease and efficiency of parsing is more important than all sorts of neat shorthands, IMHO. Also, PIRC could be seen as a prototype of how to implement a PIR compiler; I've probably not made the best decisions along the way. People who want to work on alternatives for IMCC, I'm happy to help out by sharing experience. Anyway, I have some expertise on parsing and processing PIR. I'm happy to transfer knowledge. cheers, kjs _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
