Re: musings: write some perl ops in perl

2001-08-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:37 PM 8/22/2001 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: >Larry's already said (from memory) that the distinction between ops and >subs should be minimized or eliminated. > >That, together with the desire to keep parrot fairly language netural, >leads naturally to having 'heavy' ops actually be be subs. Yup

Re: musings: write some perl ops in perl

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Bunce
Larry's already said (from memory) that the distinction between ops and subs should be minimized or eliminated. That, together with the desire to keep parrot fairly language netural, leads naturally to having 'heavy' ops actually be be subs. Tim. On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:02:44PM -0400, Uri Gu

musings: write some perl ops in perl

2001-08-17 Thread Uri Guttman
i was musing about the parrot last night and came up with an idea. what about writing some of the perl ops in perl itself (or in hand coded parrot assembler)? the origin of this, of course, is gnu emacs where many of the common functions are written in lisp and not c. now i fully expect most of t