Re: Intro / Parrot / Functional Lang Imp Q

2007-05-30 Thread Will Coleda
andrew cooke writes: Also, am I right in thinking that I can use whatever language I want for generating the IR? Sure. languages/BASIC used perl, as did tcl some time back. Most are generating PIR with PIR these days, though. (ISTR plumhead is generating PIR multiple ways) I will check the l

Re: Intro / Parrot / Functional Lang Imp Q

2007-05-30 Thread andrew cooke
>> pattern matching (where is that handled?) > > Pattern matching is provided with one of the PGE compilers. See > languages/tcl/runtime/builtin/regexp.pir for an example (there is probably > better documentation, I just happened to know I was using it there in > tcl.) Thanks. >> and a little mut

Re: Intro / Parrot / Functional Lang Imp Q

2007-05-30 Thread Will Coleda
andrew cooke writes: Hi, I am thinking about using Parrot as the VM for a small, experimental functional language. My priority is ease of getting things working. I was wondering if: - this is the right list for parrot (parrot-porters-subscribe bounced)? parrot-porters and perl6-intern

Intro / Parrot / Functional Lang Imp Q

2007-05-29 Thread andrew cooke
Hi, I am thinking about using Parrot as the VM for a small, experimental functional language. My priority is ease of getting things working. I was wondering if: - this is the right list for parrot (parrot-porters-subscribe bounced)? - whether there was a more suitable venue (more focussed on