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From:
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 :)
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Dan
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