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          Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As for the language we implement perl in (and thus ultimately need to
> translate to the compiler-target language), I'm thinking of something like
> Chip's PIL. (Or PIL itself--I've not actually seen it)

Is there any information on PIL available anywhere?

>                                                        Basically the
> macro/tracking translator from hell that'll automagically generate header
> files, provide all the permutations of vtable functions, and suchlike things.

Doesn't this run a significant danger of leading us straight back
into the perl5 problem of making debugging of the source code more
or less impossible?

Tom

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