Re: PMC for Lexical-Scoping Variable Frames

2002-03-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:42 PM +0200 3/15/02, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >Does this correspond with the general Parrot philosophy? Any > >other objections? > > Did you look at PDD 6? Most of this is already spec'd out. > You mean "PDD 6: Parrot Assembly Language"? Do you imply

Re: PMC for Lexical-Scoping Variable Frames

2002-03-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:42 PM +0200 3/15/02, Shlomi Fish wrote: >Does this correspond with the general Parrot philosophy? Any >other objections? Did you look at PDD 6? Most of this is already spec'd out. -- Dan --"it's like this"---

PMC for Lexical-Scoping Variable Frames

2002-03-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
Many of the languages (if not most) that are planned to be implemented above Parrot are lexically-scoped. The methodology to implement such behaviour on top of an otherwise non-LS VM was described by Abelson and Sussman in the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs": http://mitp