Melvin Smith wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > It sounds like what you are embarking on is a compiler implementation > with a full grammar, etc. Right?
Not at all, he wants to reuse the perl 5 parser to generate parrot opcodes from perl 5 opcodes. > I also remember there was work already in progress, Simon Cozens mailed > out a tokenizer and I recall Damian Conway saying he was going to deliver > a parser (maybe I'm confused as I often am)? I assume this could be reused, > else we end up with 2 architectures of compiler for Perl5 and Perl6. Well, IIRC Simon's tokenizer was a draft perl 6 tokenizer. http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SI/SIMON/Perl6-Tokener-0.01.tar.gz
