Re: [Cardinal-dev] [RELEASE] Parrot 007: Secret Agent Bird

[Dan Sugalski]

At 2:03 PM -0400 7/19/02, Pat Eyler wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Jeff wrote:
>
> [elision]
>
> >  Welcome to version 0.0.7 of Parrot.
> >
> >  The big news: Perl 6 grammar and a small but functional compiler!
> >  Check out languages/perl6 and the tests, but make sure to build
> >  languages/imcc first.
> >
> >  Functional subroutine, coroutine, and continuation PMCs
> >  Global variables
> >  Intermediate bytecode compiler (languages/imcc)
> >  Assembler now entirely in perl, no more PakFile2.xs
> >  Working GC
>
> It looks like another big jump in functionality ... it may be time to
> start doing something serious with cardinal.  The question is what to do
> and how to organize it.

Next on the list is lexical variables and methods, so that should help a lot.

What I'd do is take a look at how the perl 6 parser we now ship does 
it--it's completely standalone, and may give you a handle on at least 
one way to do things. (It uses Melvin's IMCC intermediate compiler, 
which we also ship, to do some of the more difficult things, which is 
nice)
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                                        Dan

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