On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:47:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I've heard rumors about PI -- Perl Implementation language. What is it?
>
> Well PI is what Chip was calling his OO-in-C pre-processor before Topaz
> went C++. _I_ am using it as a placeholder for whatever we end up using
> as the source form.
>
> I want to avoid the CPP hell we have in perl5.
> So I am assuming we do the "pre processing" from something to (say) C
> ourselves. The result has Chip's OO-assist if necessary but also does
> s/sv_undef/PL_sv_undef/ type stuff that perl5 does with CPP.
>
> My guess is that input is very C like with maybe the odd "keyword"
> added to make it easy for the expander.
Ah! PI is a great idea. Why not dump as much intelligence as possible
into PI?
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