On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:26, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I forgot to announce the call for questions here (sorry), but the > answers 9and the questions) to the first round of Ask The Parrot have > been posted over on use.perl. > http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/06/179233 for the interested.
Some interesting items there. I'd like to ask a few follow-ups, but not sure who the right audience is. For now, let's assume it's this list, and not use.perl.org On language features: How is it that Parrot is language-neutral, and yet as a specific set of guarantees for destructors? Wouldn't those assumptions be wrong for, say, Scheme or Python? Also on that point, what of closures? Can those be managed in an efficient, and yet language-neutral fashion? On the Perl5 handling: why do you need step 3? Specifically, why not just continue to use the Perl5 parser as the Perl5 front-end for Perl6? That should guarantee compatibility. Very nice Q&A. Thank you very much for the info!
