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From:
Gerard Goossen
Date:
March 22, 2007 03:35
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] p55 tests
Message ID:
20070322103829.GC24152@ostwald
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:43:35AM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 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?
It is intended as a demonstration of rewriting Perl code using MAD.
It is not yet intended to be added to bleadperl.
Maybe in the future when it becomes a bit better it can be added to bleadperl as a
refactoring tool, but it needs a lot more work before that.
Gerard Goossen
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