At 9:00 AM -0600 9/13/04, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
On September 13, 2004 07:52 am, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 3:31 AM -0600 9/11/04, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>On September 8, 2004 04:34 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 11:02 PM +0100 9/8/04, Richard Jolly wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> ><newbie>
>> >
>> >Can someone provide clarification on what mixing languages will look
>> >like in practice, or point me to where its explained?
>>
>> It's not explained anywhere. Besides, it's syntax, and we don't do
>> syntax.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> It'll likely be something like:
>>
>> #! /usr/bin/perl
>> $foo = <<EOP
>> for foo in range(10):
>> print foo
>> EOP
>> $bar = eval $foo, "Python";
>>
>> give or take. I doubt you'll see people mixing languages in source
>> files that often -- more likely you'll use library modules, and those
>> modules will be in perl 5 /perl 6/ python/ ruby/ tcl/ cola/ assembly/
>> forth/ postscript/ befunge/ intercal/ applescript/ whatever.
>
>Now why can't you use other languages symbols in your chosen language?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. You'll certainly be able to
use values returned from code in another language. That should be no
problem unless whoever's writing the language compiler decides to be
anti-social.
Whether you'll be able to switch from one language to another within
a single file, or have means to compile code in a different language
at runtime, is entirely up to the language designer and implementor,
and it's definitely possible that you won't be able to do that. Not
much we can do at the parrot level -- we can't force someone to put
string eval into their language... ;)
What I mean... Just simple runtime library access, ie perl calls python (or
whatever) runtime library functions, or creates a new object, etc. in perl.
Ah, right. *That* will be doable no problem. :)
Just now I realised I misunderstood the op. :( I thought he meant just:
use Python;
our Python::String $str = new Python::String();
or something as equally silly.
Not silly -- you might actually want the python string semantics. Never know...
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