At 08:40 AM 5/10/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dave Mitchell writes:
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>: > Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equivalent of the Microsoft
>: > CLR, so that if you can somehow get bytecode onto it - from whatever
>: > language - you can run it. So we've got some bytecode that perl can run.
>: > Now think about what B::Deparse does.
>:
>: I knew the intention was to go the B::Deparse route,
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>It was, but the current intention is to pursue Perl 5 translation (and
>maybe even a limp-along compatibility mode) via an alternate parser
>sitting beside the standard Perl 6 parser. Then people can convert
>piecemeal when they see the benefits of Perl 6 outweighing the risks.
There might still be a B::Deparse solution, or a standalone p5 bytecode->p6
bytecode converter, at least at the start. Both for example reasons
(potentially to use as, say, a Java bytecode->p6 bytecode converter) and as
a way to get bytecode streams to feed into the developing p6 interpreter.
Dan
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