Re: The external interface for the parser piece

[Dave Storrs]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 09:51 AM 11/29/00 -0800, Dave Storrs wrote:
> >I have a feeling this is a stupid question, but I have to ask anyway.
> >
> >Do we really need to pass in a PerlInterp pointer?  Or can perl6_parse
> >just create one for itself if/when it needs one?  If created, it could of
> >course be kept around so that it didn't need to be re-created later.
> 
> Yup, we do. We'd call this (or something like it) when doing the whole 
> eval/do/require/use thing, so we may well be parsing into an existing 
> interpreter.


        Sorry, I guess I didn't phrase that well...I realize we're going
to *need* an interpreter.  My question is, does it have to be created
outside of the perl6_parse(...) function?  I just thought that if we could
eliminate one more parameter, one more "magic cookie" that the caller (in
an embedded situation) needs to work with, that would be a good thing.

                        Dave