hi,
IIRC, IMCC started as a kind of pre-processor for PASM, in other words,
it allowed more readable shortcuts for several constructs. Eventually,
everything was translated to pure PASM, that is, 1 long list of real
Parrot instructions (no .sub/.end blocks etc).
At some point, IMCC was merged with Parrot as its parser. Since then, a
lot of additions have been done, like the .sub pragmas like :load
,:main, :init, :outer etc. (When Perl6 and Parrot essentials was
written, these flags were not there)
Now, my question, is it still true that every PIR construct has a PASM
form as well, can every PIR construct be translated directly to PASM?
That is, can one still get the same behaviour that is achieved by all
those high-level PIR constructs like :outer(...), in PASM as well?
thanks in advance,
klaas-jan
