Re: the C JIT

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From:

David L. Nicol

Date:

September 6, 2000 14:29

Subject:

Re: the C JIT

Message ID:

39B6B718.14C84FCE@kasey.umkc.edu

"Myers, Dirk" wrote:

> I still find this whole idea confusing, though.  Just out of curiosity,
> though, would:
> 
>         #include a way for users to bail out gracefully
> 
> be a syntax error?

It is clear to us that that is a comment and not a preprocessor directive.
The #include preprocessor directive is more than match /^#include/ it is
more like (/^#include (".+")\s*\Z/ or /^#include (<.+>)\s*\Z/). And anything
that would be a syntax error in C, a poorly formed preprocessor directive, is
a simple Perl comment.

> And how about:
> 
>         int length = 256 ;
> 
> and, if that's legal, what does:
> 
>         print "I wonder what this is : " . length  ;
> 
> do?

I imagine the first order of business for the C JIT team would be
some conversion operators.  Numeric types stringify into decimal representation,
no reason to throw that away.

> Dirk

thanks for your support

-- 
                          David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
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