On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:13:52PM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I am trying to work out how to compile a perl script using pugs. > (Am I on the right mailing list?)
Well, yes and no. To run Perl 5 in Parrot, you want the ponie-dev
mailing list -- this is perl6-compiler after all. :-)
> If I do pugs -h, then it suggests to me the -C option will do the
> trick, but does not say what value the backend might be.
Thanks, the latest trunk now suggests ays:
-Cbackend compile using the compiler backend
(valid backends are: Pugs, Parrot, Haskell
> so it seems to dislike the for, but I guess it's something that comes
> before that. Is there a list of incompatibilites with perl 5 anywhere?
> (I might add that I know very little at all about perl).
The short answer is that Perl6->Parrot codegen is currently very
primitive in Pugs; I expect to improve it next month with Leo and Chip,
but currently it's not robust at all.
However, for some (minimal) success in embedding Perl 6 via Parrot, see
mod_parrot, which has a mod_pugs layer:
http://www.smashing.org/mod_parrot/
The long answer is that, in general, Perl 5 script will not run as Perl 6
without some conversion. The definitive documents about Perl 6 is the
Synopses:
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
There are various quick-references in the Pugs tree, assuming you know
some Perl 5:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/quickref/
There is also a Perl 5 to Perl 6 "porting guide":
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=442402
Larry is working on a translator that can compile Perl 5 program into
Perl 6, known as PPD, but it's not released yet. Nicholas Clark is heading
an effort to run Perl 5 on top of Parrot VM, known as Ponie:
http://poniecode.org/
Thanks,
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