Re: The external interface for the parser piece

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:36 PM 12/13/00 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: >Ah. Digest system tells me some messages for me bounced. > > > From: Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >int perl6_parse(PerlInterp *interp, > > >void *sour

Re: Backtracking through the source

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:17 PM 12/13/00 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:33:16PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Good integration with source filters may well solve a large chunk of our > > little language problem. They're a pain and a half to write now but if we > > can get them easier to wri

Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:05 PM 12/12/00 +, David Mitchell wrote: >Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:20:44PM +, David Mitchell wrote: > > > If we assume that ints and nums are perl builtins, and that some people > > > have implemented the following external types: byte (

Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-13 Thread David Mitchell
Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is a Language and not an internals issue - Larry will tell us. > But I suspect the answer is that it should "work" without any special > stuff for simple perl5-ish types - because you need to be able to > translate 98% of 98% of perl5 programs.

Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:43:35PM +, David Mitchell wrote: > * do values ever get demoted - eg an expression inolving bigints that evaluates > to 0: should this be returned as an int or a bigint? [I may have mailed this already] Experimentation on perl5 says yes. Making the sv_setuv actuall

Re: The external interface for the parser piece

2000-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
Ah. Digest system tells me some messages for me bounced. > From: Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The external interface for the parser piece > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, Nov 2

Re: Backtracking through the source

2000-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:33:16PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Good integration with source filters may well solve a large chunk of our > little language problem. They're a pain and a half to write now but if we > can get them easier to write that'd be a good thing. ('Specially if we can > man