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Postings from February 2001
Larry has guaranteed that Perl 6 will be built "out of the same source tree" as Perl 5. This is a major win for us in two areas. Firstly, we can reuse the information determined by Perl 5's Configure process to help make Perl 6 portable: for instance, I expect we'll still be using the [UI](8|16|32|V) typedefs to guarantee integer sizes. Secondly and more importantly, it guarantees that we've got a copy of Perl on hand before Perl 6 is built. This allows us to reduce the level of preprocessor muddling by effectively generating the C source to Perl 6 from templates and preprocessing. For instance, I expect to see a little macro language develop for specifying vtable methods, which, when preprocessed, would also generate the vtables and their corresponding enums. I'd also like to see Perl choose whether or not a function should invoke the native C library's implementation or define its own. What do people think? -- Gu sa-sur bi nu-ha-za sila-a KU. -- Sumerian sayingThread Next