On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:35:11PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > I'd like to add Punie to the Parrot repository. It's a first step > toward a compiler for Perl 1 running on Parrot. Currently it's *very* > simple: it only parses and compiles a single statement printing a > single digit -- but it uses PGE grammars and the stub in ast/ to do it.
Cool! However, I wonder if Punie is indeed targetting Perl 1. As Schwern will attest, Perl 1 is a quite complicated language, with nullary, unary, binary and ternary functions, arrays, hashes, pattern matches, transliteration, format, loop control and labels. Is it Punie's goal to support all of those semantic constructs? If not, maybe call it something else than Perl 1, to avoid confusion? :) Thanks, /Autrijus/
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