Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Matthew Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest you read more about Parrot... it's designed to allow these > things. There is a project (Ponie) to make Perl 5 run on Parrot, and > there will be other languages as well - which will be able to call each > others libraries. Making the Perl 5 lib

Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Matthew Walton
I suggest you read more about Parrot... it's designed to allow these things. There is a project (Ponie) to make Perl 5 run on Parrot, and there will be other languages as well - which will be able to call each others libraries. Making the Perl 5 libraries available to Perl 6 being a primary mot

Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Milscvaer
Hello, I believe it would be a very good idea and quite essential, if Perl6 is not simply a superset of Perl5 and thus by default back compatable with Perl5, for Parrot/Perl6 to also contain complete, 100% backwards compatability capability with perl5 code, either in a seperate perl5 parser d