On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Amir Karger wrote:
> Apologies if I'm repeating myself, but I think I accidentally posted my
> "parrotZ status" a few days ago using Google groups instead of email.
> Did noone receive my mail, or was it just too long to read?
It's a one-way gateway. Posting via the perl.org NNTP server does
sometimes work, but that's still human-moderated so far as I know. (Which,
given the nasty shape of most newsgroups and the amount of maintenance
that'd be required, is fine by me)
> One of the things I mentioned there is that I would love to have some
> very simple examples of PIR files. The .imc files generated by perl6
> tests look very machine-generated. I'd like to know what good style is
> (e.g., for calling subroutines -- nci? pcc?) before I completely ignore
> it in my machine-generated code.
We've gotten to the point where text is just not the way to go. We're
layering too much text transform crap on top of parrot assembly, and
that's an utter waste, as we shouldn't be generating text for this in the
first place.
It's time to get the AST format going and feed that to imcc. Text. Bleah.
> On the other hand, I've come up with not one but three great new names
> for pieces of my project.
Woohoo! :)
Dan
