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At 04:57 PM 7/24/00 +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
>In fact, I could argue that modular design dictates that even if we
>write our own, someone who wanted to should still be able to plug glib
>in with very little work.
I'm not sure that's feasable. You're talking about changing things at a
very low level, in spots that probably have inappropriate carnal knowledge
of how bits of code work and their side-effects. Allowing for it would
probably give an excessive speed hit.
>All features of _all_ backends should be available to the perl user.
I'll disagree with this. There's no reason that some backends lack some
features--if we can have full frontend/backend separation, it's not
unreasonable to think that B::Palm and B::JVM lack the lexer, for example.
(Not that they *have* to, mind, but its a reasonable place to make a cut
for space/speed/impedance reasons)
Dan
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