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Postings from November 2000
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:55:27AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:29:24AM +0000, David Grove wrote:
> > If this should be a PDD, I'll be happy to propose it that way, but I will
> > need some slight help in the specific implementation of the C code that
> > does it.
>
> I may have misunderstood the purpose of this group, but it's *API*, which
> means we're not (yet) designing how the parser acts or is implemented, but
The parser acts and is implemented in a fast, compact, and clean way :-)
> we're merely talking about how it communicates with the rest of Perl. So I
> think we're expecting to see things along the lines of:
> OP* parse(SV *); /* Parse a piece of code, return op tree */
>
> void parse_add_hook(int level, FPTR function, void* data);
> /* Add a hook (function) to be called at level (level) of parsing */
Yes, that's the kind of stuff we are after.
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