>> Burp, more spam from me... >> >> As I see it there are several immediate questions to be answered for Parrot >> IO. >> Feel free to answer with Y/N or Maybe. >> >> 1) Nick Ing-Simmons' Perl IO for Perl5 >> c) Is there a copyright issue? > >Nick's intent all along has been that his work be useful and used in >perl6.
Yes, This makes sense just from the amount of time he spent on Perl5 and I intend to to just that. Any work we do will have Nick's credits there, I think after talking to Dan, Simon and a couple of others the best route would be to start with a clean slate and then reuse what we can when it makes sense rather than a bottom up port from perl5 source code. It also helps me get a better handle on the system as it grows, especially since Nick isn't currently active here. Maybe he will return to help. :) One thing we should accomplish will be an API for people to pop in their own IO layer by implementing a table of calls. This seems to be where Perl5 was headed and I want to make that a priority. (Then of course the whole STDIO argument will be moot, if someone wants to glue in their STDIO mapper they can, we are just gonna ditch all the #ifdef and not support it by default.) -Melvin Smith IBM :: Atlanta Innovation Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: 770-835-6984
