Ok, so I'm not off in la-la land. See you in parser. I have a couple
things you might like...
Thanks, Dan
pete
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:17 AM 11/14/00 +0000, David Grove wrote:
> >Dan & al.,
> >
> >I'm very surprised to see planning groups for api and parsing for
perl6
> >springing up, with goals of providing RFC's in nine days. This is
rather
> >confusing given that Larry hasn't yet (that I'm aware of) determined
what
> >Perl6 will even look like, what, if any, new keywords will be there,
what
> >will be features of the language, etc. Planning a map from "here" to
> >"there" doesn't sound quite feasible when we don't know where "there"
is.
> >What am I missing?
>
> Well, the APIs are for the most part independent of what Larry's
> doing--the
> API an interpreter presents to an extension doesn't have much to do
with
> what the language looks like.
>
> The deadlines are so close mainly because things got held up a bit. I
> asked
> Ask to set them up just before the mail loop from hell caught the
vmsperl
> and p5p lists, so the deadlines are shorter than they need to be.
>
> (Though I don't think we really need more than a few weeks to get a
good
> set of working RFCs for this, though of course they'll get amended and
> expanded as work proceeds)
>
> Dan
>
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