>> pattern matching (where is that handled?) > > Pattern matching is provided with one of the PGE compilers. See > languages/tcl/runtime/builtin/regexp.pir for an example (there is probably > better documentation, I just happened to know I was using it there in > tcl.)
Thanks. >> and a little mutability. In other words, I don't care much >> about first class continuations, exceptions, (static) types or >> inheritance. >> >> Also, am I right in thinking that I can use whatever language I want for >> generating the IR? > > Sure. languages/BASIC used perl, as did tcl some time back. Most are > generating PIR with PIR these days, though. (ISTR plumhead is generating > PIR multiple ways) I will check the languages directory, but this confuses me - do people write parsers in PIR? Thanks for the reply, Andrew
