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Dan Sugalski
Date:
September 8, 2004 12:13
Subject:
Re: Current state?
Message ID:
a06110427bd650a1cc257@[10.0.1.2]
At 2:35 PM -0400 9/8/04, JOSEPH RYAN wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
>Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 1:56 pm
>Subject: Re: Current state?
>
>>  At 11:21 AM -0600 9/8/04, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>  >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>>  >>  On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:33:45AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
>>  wrote:>>  : We're in the beginning stages of building a basic perl
>>  6 grammar engine
>>  >>  : (i.e., probably without p6 closures) that compiles to parrot
>>  and handles
>>  >>  : basic optimizations.
>>  >>
>>  >>  I wonder whether, in the absence of closures, we'll have to
>>  have some
>>  >>  similar way to embed syntax-tree building code (PIR?) as
>>  actions in
>>  >>  the grammar.
>>  >
>>  >We may indeed need this.
>>
>>  Or we could just get closures working...
>
>To get closure assertions working, you need 
>something that compiles the code in the
>closure assertion, and so there is a bit of a
>bootstrapping problem. (:

Ah, OK. I thought the problem was that parrot's closure stuff wasn't 
working right. (which I think it might not be :)
-- 
				Dan

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