On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:33:45PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
- In PGE grammars, what is the { ... } at the end of every
proto declaration supposed to do?
[...]
But in the end, I didn't allow simple semicolon terminators
simply because it wasn't valid Perl 6 syntax, and in many cases I
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
But come to think of it, if we had something like Capture PMCs
available as a standard type (and an easy way to generate them in
PIR), then the existing :vtable('init') would be quite sufficient.
To steal from Perl 6's C \(...) capture syntax:
$P0 = new 'Foo::Bar',
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:20:08PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
chromatic's suggestion is to replace the series of manual calls in
HLLCompiler's 'compile' method with an iterator over an array of
compiler tasks.
I very much agree with chromatic -- indeed, this is
Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 08:51 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
I'm half-way
inclined to see that as a limitation in Parrot that needs to be fixed
rather than a problem with these classes.
Having dealt with this in both PGE and at least two PAST
implementations, I certainly see it as a
Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 08:51 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
But come to think of it, if we had something like Capture PMCs
available as a standard type (and an easy way to generate
them in PIR), then the existing :vtable('init') would be
quite sufficient.
Another note. Yes, a core
I'll split my replies into separate threads to make it easier to wrap
our brains around individual chunks.
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Clear boundaries between components: (Fuzzy boundaries of abstraction
make it difficult to allow for other implementations of the AST/OST or
customization of
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Also, out of curiosity, which high-level constructs in punie aren't
working?
What I've found so far are:
- The top-level AST structure is off: my temporary hack to replace
PAST::Stmt and PAST::Exp with PAST::Stmts is producing extra temporary
variables in the PIR
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:52:13AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Also, out of curiosity, which high-level constructs in punie aren't
working?
What I've found so far are:
- The top-level AST structure is off: my temporary hack to replace
PAST::Stmt and
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:13:52AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
.sub '__onload' :load :init
# load your modules
$P1 = new [ 'HLLCompiler' ]
$P1.'init'('language'='punie', 'parse_grammar'='Punie::Parser',
'ast_grammar'='Punie::AST::Grammar')
.end
.sub 'main' :main
.param
This fragment of response is about types, layers of abstraction and
tracking information as the stages of compilation progress.
And, I probably haven't said it enough yet, but the work you've done
here is absolutely wonderful, Patrick. There's nothing like a solid
chunk of working code to
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
I'll gladly add PAST::Stmt and PAST::Exp nodes if that's at all
useful. Just because they're there doesn't mean a compiler has to
use them. :-)
Well, I came to the conclusion that PAST::Exp was useless a while ago.
(Its entire point of existence was as a dummy
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:28:59PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
I'll gladly add PAST::Stmt and PAST::Exp nodes if that's at all
useful. Just because they're there doesn't mean a compiler has to
use them. :-)
Well, I came to the conclusion that PAST::Exp was
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Now implemented in r15882 as shown above, sans the helper 'init'
method (which I'll add later tonight). Examples are in
languages/perl6/ and languages/abc/ .
Definitely an improvement. Hmm... okay, I see what you're going for.
Creating subclass of HLLCompiler for
This fragment of a reply is the random bits that didn't make it into
other topic-centered replies.
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
Excellent. Just as a general overall response -- PAST-pm is by
no means finished, so many of the items
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:20:08PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Now implemented in r15882 as shown above, sans the helper 'init'
method (which I'll add later tonight). Examples are in
languages/perl6/ and languages/abc/ .
So, with a thumbs up on that
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:13:21PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
This fragment of a reply is the random bits that didn't make it into
other topic-centered replies.
...and some quick responses before turning in for the night...
Currently Parrot uses '__init' as the method for initializing
new
Overall, the POST implementation is usable and I really like the new HLL
compiler module. I've got Punie working with the new toolchain to the
point that it's generating valid PIR code for many low-level constructs,
but some of the high-level constructs that worked under the previous
toolchain
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
I had to poke into the guts of HLLCompiler, the new PAST, and the new
POST a fair bit in the process of getting Punie to work with them, so my
comments here are a mixture of user experience and implementation
details. I've
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
Overall, the POST implementation is usable and I really like the new HLL
compiler module. I've got Punie working with the new toolchain to the
point that it's generating valid PIR code for many low-level constructs,
but some of
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