On Jul 28, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Will Coleda wrote:
Since I found myself doing this for PGE::Codestring and now for Tcl's
'__stringToList', I thought it might be a good idea to write down the
process in case anyone else finds themselves working on a similar
task.
http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?how_to_convert_pir_to_c
Regards.
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Will "Coke" Coleda
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For PIR you're intending to eventually turn into C, using the
hllmacros.pir include can help provide block structure in a clearer
way.
"That's a while loop. We just can't write those in PIR, so we were
stuck with the more verbose syntax."
.While(orig_pos >= orig_len, {
...
})
Then it's more obvious what you're doing. Some code uses jumps so much
that a higher level construct would end up being convoluted but most
cases can be handled easily. There are just some small issues such as
using .local inside the block, and other issues that for the most part
are due to the macro syntax in use.
