Damian Conway writes:
> me, at least) trivial implementation issues, well documented in the
> compiler literature. I choose to ignore them because I *have* to ignore
> them or my brain is going to melt.
The brief explanations you gave ("here's how it would be translated",
and "walk each statement's unoptimized op-tree") combined with a
direct reference to literature that gives sample implementations is
enough. You don't have to nut out the exact implementation, but
someone does, and the more pointers you can give them the better.
"Someone else's problem" doesn't help that someone else :-)
The fact that other languages can implement it trivially doesn't mean
that Perl can. I'd like us to have realized what kind of internals
support is needed for a language feature (e.g., optree duping for
partially-evaluated subroutines) *before* speccing out the internals.
Nat
