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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
April 24, 2001 18:57
Subject:
Re: Tying & Overloading
Message ID:
200104250154.SAA13397@kiev.wall.org
Nick Ing-Simmons writes:
: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
: >I think using overloading to write a parser is going to be a relic of
: >Perl 5's limitations, not Perl 6's.
:
: I am _NOT_ using overloading to write a parser.
: Parse::Yapp is just fine for writing parsers. I am trying to re-use
: a parser that already exists - perl5's parser.
I understand that, even if I was unclear.
: What _really_ want to do is a dynamically scoped peep-hole "optimize"
: (actually a rewrite) of the op tree - written in perl.
Sure, but that's not really overloading the way I think of it, it's a
different kind of hook into the parser/code-generator. That's more or
less what I was trying to say, poorly.
Larry
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