On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> With each box being replaceable, and the process being freezable between
> boxes. The lexer and parser probably ought to be separated, thinking about
> it, and we probably want to allow folks to wedge at least C code into each
> bit. (I'm not sure whether allowing you to write part of the optimizer in
> perl would be a win, but I suppose if it was saving the byte stream to
> disk...)

I thought that the idea was to allow Perl code to modify the output
of Lex/Parser and Bytcoder, before it goes onto the next stage (not
that letting C code do the same would be a bad thing).

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