----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 1:56 pm Subject: Re: Current state?
At 11:21 AM -0600 9/8/04, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:33:45AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:>> : We're in the beginning stages of building a basic perl 6 grammar engine >> : (i.e., probably without p6 closures) that compiles to parrot and handles >> : basic optimizations. >> >> I wonder whether, in the absence of closures, we'll have to have some >> similar way to embed syntax-tree building code (PIR?) as actions in >> the grammar. > >We may indeed need this.
Or we could just get closures working...
To get closure assertions working, you need something that compiles the code in the
closure assertion, and so there is a bit of a
bootstrapping problem. (:
Ah, OK. I thought the problem was that parrot's closure stuff wasn't working right. (which I think it might not be :)
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