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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
March 21, 2007 17:42
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] p55 tests
Message ID:
20070322004335.GI19003@iabyn.com
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:24:29PM +0100, Gerard Goossen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:36:33PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > 
> > On Mar 20, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Gerard Goossen wrote:
> > 
> > >This patch adds a test for p55, the "Perl 5 to Perl 5" translator.
> > 
> > That rocks. I'm really glad to see MAD getting exercised. How much  
> > luck are you having at rewriting software in Perl to not use the  
> > features you're deprecating in your experimental branches?
> 
> I have attach a patch which adds the converter, still very experimental.
> The removal of indirect-object-syntax works fine.
> barewords are a lot more problematic, because it requires finding out
> what the bareword has to be replaced with (my current method is
> horrible), maybe I should add some more MAD to make this easier.

Am I correct in assuming that this patch is just for people interested in
your perl variant, and not intended to be added to bleedperl?

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