Re: Approaching m4

2003-08-15 Thread James Michael DuPont
--- Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have started an implementation of m4 in PIR. See > http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html. That is amazing! > > The goal is to make a lot of tests work, and eventually getting a > drop > in replacement for GNU m4. > The plan is t

Re: Approaching m4

2003-08-14 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have started an implementation of m4 in PIR. The implications are staggering... Sure, plenty of compilers can bootstrap themselves, but how many can generate their own configure scripts via autoconf? With p4rrot, we may live to see this dream.

Re: Approaching m4

2003-08-14 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Leon Brocard wrote: We've used the Perl testing framework (Test::Harness, eg: 1..1\nok 1) in the main parrot test suite. It's working well for Perl and a Parrot version of it might be nice idea... Anything that emits the Test::Harness protocol is fine. An

Re: Approaching m4

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
Bernhard Schmalhofer sent the following bits through the ether: > Is there already a testing framework in PIR or PASM? For now I've just > tweaked the Makefile from bf. This looks excellent. First, may I be the first to say that I'm happy that BF is the inspiration for so many Parrot projects ;