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Postings from July 2000
Piers Cawley (lists.bootstrap): >I was thinking the plan was to be able to write perl in perl. I kind I assume you mean perl in Perl. >of assumed that this would mean that there would be a rather more >fully blown perl compiler that produced 'real' machine language >(either via C or directly). Well, yes, I have been working on this separately. I started with a Perl 5 tokenizer, Perl::Toke, which was intended to help with syntax highlighting, style checking, and so on, but was always designed to be part of a Perl perl implementation. If we do want to do this, the first priority would be to make the tokeniser re-entrant, which is a tricky problem; I've got it down to a couple of nasty cases in Perl::Toke::intuit_more, but... Well, frankly, I think having a separate tokeniser and parser is asking for trouble anyway. -- Apr 13 11:05:20 apollo13 fsck[3927]: root, we have a problem. - Jeff Gostin <jgostin@shell2.ba.best.com>