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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
June 24, 2002 16:29
Subject:
Re: Perl5 humor
Message ID:
20020625002334.A29087@fdgroup.com
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:21:45PM -0400, David J. Goehrig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > Much more likely is some kind of wrapper that manages a simple
> > perl5-like run-time environment (stacks, marks, gimme, symboltable
> > etc) plus source-code compatibility support (macros, functions etc)
> > that's just sufficient to keep old XS code happy.
>
> That's all I'd ask for, but the scope of that project is truly incredible.
> Granted that the one could get most of their bang for their buck out of
> just handling those found in perlguts, but the devil is in the details.
Of course, another approach is to embed the existing Perl5 interpreter
within the Perl 6 interpreter; Perl6 subs call glue which calls Perl subs
which calls perl5 XS.
Dave.
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