Re: Threaded Perl bytecode (was: Re: stackless python)

2000-10-26 Thread Ken Fox
Chaim Frenkel wrote: > We may not even need to copy the body. The nice thing about the "copy body and replace with stub" solution is that it doesn't impose any costs on threaded subs that don't get re-bound at run-time. I agree with you that there are lots of solutions though so re-binding should

Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-26 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "AS" == Ariel Scolnicov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> Another advantage of a TIL that you seem to lose by compiling Perl to AS> it is the ease of defining new words. Forth-like systems are AS> programmed by compiling myriads of very small "words", in gradually AS> increasing levels. Per

How to tell (in perl5) if friz is a core command or not?

2000-10-26 Thread David L. Nicol
Anyone remember when I posted the top level of a language prototyping environment? Well, that system has now grown a lexical parser that can understand arbitararily deep doublequotes, and I'm working on a perl5 into perl5 capability for it. Is there a way to determine if a word is defined a