Dear fellow hackers, First of all, I would like to say that I hope that you dont take offence at my silly questions and crazy ideas! ;)
I have been looking in the amazing work that you have been doing with parrot and the work that Michal Wallace has been doing with the Pirate, the following questions have came to mind : 1. Is it possible to stored in some way ASTs inside of parrot IMC byte code in such a way that they may be evaluated and compiled at runtime? We talked about this in the context of metadata and bazookas months ago, and I am ready to start making a simple prototype on top of pirate for storeing the ASTS in the metadata alongside of the bytecode. 2. Is it possible to emit new IMC routines on the fly and have them be loaded in as if they came from the load routine? like a form or reflection.emit? 3. It is possible to make the entire parrot object system as a lib that implements objects as special variables? like the old ATT CFront? 4. Is there any attempts at debugging support in parrot, for a way to mix the original source code and assembly together, a way to enable tracebility of. These features would allow portions of the features not supported to be added into a lib and for the lib to JIT implement these funky features or fail gracefully. Any ideas or am I way over board? mike PS: please feel free to ban me from this list for wasting your time and bytes with off topic posts and crazy ideas, you may have the sudden urge to ban me for no reason at all whatsoever. :) ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
