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Dan Sugalski writes: > I'd like this as well, though I'm not particularly willing to sacrifice > speed for it, if it comes down to that. (Not that it must, mind, but if it > does...) Modular decomposition of the problem space doesn't mean that each module has to be reusable in contexts other than Perl. I think a lot of people are missing this. I think the Perl's RE engine, for instance, is going to assume Perl so that it knows about scalars, callbacks, and so on. You could design an abstract interface to any language, but that's going to slow down the Perl version to make it possible to use other versions, and I don't (personally, not as project leader) like that tradeoff. I'd be very surprised if that kind of approach was adopted. NatThread Previous | Thread Next