On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:04:06PM -0700, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I see, the Perl* PMCs are no longer used in the Parrot core. > > There is still some usage in unmaintained language implementations: > > BASIC/compiler unmaintained ? > BASIC/interpreter unmaintained ? > forth unmaintained ? > miniperl unmaintained ? > parakeet unmaintained ? > regex unmaintained ? > > 'punie' seems to be the only maintained language implementation using > Perl* PMCs. Also some tests and examples are using the Perl* PMCs.
There has been some discussion of this. First, Chip has declared that Parrot won't change significantly until 1.0, and in some respects I think this may include the Perl* PMCs. For the Perl 6 compiler, we will likely create a separate set of "Perl6*" PMCs. I'm hoping that we can build a common set of Perl6* PMCs that would meet the needs of the p6 compiler, Pugs, and whoever else may need PMC objects with Perl 6 semantics. Pm
