At 06:29 PM 8/10/00 -0700, Matthew Cline wrote:
>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).
I hadn't planned on having filters between the boxes, rather having the
boxes themselves be mutable. No reason not to have a filter capability, I
suppose...
Dan
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