On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, K Stol wrote: > At this moment, I'm looking at a new version of Lua, the previous > 'pirate' compiled (well, sort of :-) Lua 4 Lua 5 has some features, > such as coroutines (If I remembered well) and all kinds of neat > stuff for which Parrot has built-in support (and it dropped some/a > feature(s) from Lua 4). I think I'll try to create a parser for Lua > 5, and to recreate a Lua/Parrot compiler (should go a lot easier now > that I had the time to think about the errors I made).
Cool. :) I'm just now reading through your report. > > Really, there's a ton of overlap between the various > > "high level" languages that parrot wants to support. > > Maybe we could put together a generic code generator > > that everyone could use? Obviously, it would have to > > be set up so you could override the parts for each > > language, but it shouldn't be too terribly hard. > > Sounds like quite a challenge, but a good idea, and I think worth a try. > > > What do you think? Want to try squishing pirate/python > > and pirate/lua together? :) > > Yeah, I like the idea. Let's try this out. Great! I figure since you've already got lua 4 working, we can leverage what you've already got and then just add the new features for python and lua 5. If you're still around, want to meet up online real quick? I'm logged in as sabren in #parrot on irc.infobot.org Sincerely, Michal J Wallace Sabren Enterprises, Inc. ------------------------------------- contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hosting: http://www.cornerhost.com/ my site: http://www.withoutane.com/ --------------------------------------
