Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:34 PM 4/16/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:25:15PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > >*cough*
> > s/parse/interpret/;
>
>Seems a bit of a shame to parse it and then not do anything with it,
>especially if we're trying to push Perl 6 as a common language runtime
>for running all sorts of bytecode-compiled languages. :)

You want to write the parser for the perl 5 code? (And yes, I do know how 
inherently silly that question was... :) I want the runtime to be able to 
handle Python too, but that doesn't mean we're going to be shipping a 
parser for it.

The problems I listed still stand. There are a lot of things we're not 
going to handle properly. If we tell people we're generally perl 5 
compatible, we are going to get burned on reasonable but unmet 
expectations. If Larry's going to significantly change the language, the 
more problems we're going to run into with a perl 5 compatible parser.

                                        Dan

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