At 4:03 PM -0400 8/13/02, Mike Lambert wrote:
> > In essence, all Perl 5 functions have a signature of (*@_ is rw).
>> Perhaps the translator can turn some of those into (*@_). What'd
>> really be cool is if it could pick up an initial
>>
>> my ($a, $b, $c) = @_;
>
>Excuse my ignorance here, but I thought the plan for backwards
>compatibility with perl5 was to embed the Perl5 engine with Parrot, and
>create thunking/compatibility interfaces between the two.
Nope, not ultimately. B:: backend first, then a perl 5 parser with
requisite PMC classes.
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