On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:02:19AM +0100, James Duncan wrote: > The biggest issue that I can immediately foresee is Perl 5 Regular > Expressions. Currently they occupy (I think) one op in perl. This is a > problem, as also not on my Fun Things To Do list is grokking the regex > engine, and then writing a backend for it. After talking with a couple of > people at tonight's London.pm meeting one solution that talked about was > wrapping the PCRE library in a PMC to deal with the problem, but I don't > know how realistic this is.
<blatant plug> It's got a long ways to go to match perl5, but parrot/languages/regex has a good start on a regex -> pasm translator.
