Herbert Snorrason wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:48:42 +0100, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CLR, JVM and C/C++ implementations exists. As parrot is supposed to be
better for dynamic languages, I guess EcmaScript 3.0 would fit right
in with parrot.
I'd love to contribute. Could one write an i
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:03:32 +0100, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> We'll see how I'll do it eventually. Right now I've just begun working
> on a lexer and parser. It would be easy to do if I dropped regular
> expressions support, but the regular expressions syntax makes the
> lexer dependent upon th
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:37:03 +0100, James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Absolutely. Compilers do *not* have to be integrated in with parrot -- my
> > current work project uses Parrot as its back end, but the compiler's
> > written in perl as a standalone program. W
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Absolutely. Compilers do *not* have to be integrated in with parrot --
my current work project uses Parrot as its back end, but the compiler's
written in perl as a standalone program. Works just fine. (Though a
Javascript compiler written in Javascript could bootstrap itself
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:49:49 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:58:44PM +, Herbert Snorrason wrote:
> > It should. EcmaScript is also a relatively small language, which would
> > work strongly in its advantage...
>
> A 188 page language spec is sma
Jeff Clites wrote:
On Nov 27, 2004, at 5:58 PM, liorean wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:30:20 -0500, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Overall, JavaScript would be a good match for Parrot. One place
where it would significantly diverge at the moment is in the concept
of a "class". Objects in
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:30:20 -0500, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably the best base to start with is Rhino, which is a standalone open
> source JavaScript compiler written in Java - originally done by the
> JavaScript team at NetScape. This code is quite good. And coincidentally is
At 10:48 PM +0100 11/27/04, liorean wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:11:07 +, Herbert Snorrason
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:43:01 +0100, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any projects to create an implementation of
EcmaScript/JavaScript that will run on top of
