Re: The 5% solution

Simon Cozens writes: : If you can "somehow get bytecode onto" Perl 6 - which you'll : need to do with an alternate parser - you can then use the Perl 6 equivalent : of B::Deparse to spit out Perl 6. At some point it would have to be annotated with formatting and comment info, though. Somebody wi

Re: The 5% solution

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:40:52AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > Dave Mitchell writes: > : > Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equivalent of the Microsoft > : > CLR, so that if you can somehow get bytecode onto it - from whatever > : > language - you can run it. So we've got some bytecode

Re: The 5% solution

Dan Sugalski writes: : At 08:40 AM 5/10/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : >Dave Mitchell writes: : >: Content-MD5: FiIz8m/ma8enU5CTBqhsQw== : >: X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4.2 SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparc : >: X-Spam-Rating: onion.valueclick.com 1.6.2 0/1000/N : >: : >: : >: > Briefly: We wan

Re: The 5% solution

At 08:40 AM 5/10/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >Dave Mitchell writes: >: Content-MD5: FiIz8m/ma8enU5CTBqhsQw== >: X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4.2 SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparc >: X-Spam-Rating: onion.valueclick.com 1.6.2 0/1000/N >: >: >: > Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equival

Re: The 5% solution

Dave Mitchell writes: : Content-MD5: FiIz8m/ma8enU5CTBqhsQw== : X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4.2 SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparc : X-Spam-Rating: onion.valueclick.com 1.6.2 0/1000/N : : : > Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equivalent of the Microsoft : > CLR, so that if you can so

Re: The 5% solution

> Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equivalent of the Microsoft > CLR, so that if you can somehow get bytecode onto it - from whatever > language - you can run it. So we've got some bytecode that perl can run. > Now think about what B::Deparse does. I knew the intention was to go the

RE: The 5% solution

> -Original Message- > From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:01 AM > To: Dave Mitchell > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The 5% solution > > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > &g

Re: The 5% solution

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > to be such that the writing of the Perl 5 to 6 translator utility is > still feasable. If you're at TPC this year, you'll hear me how explain how translators *far* weirder than simply Perl 5 to Perl 6 are possible. :) Briefly: We w

The 5% solution

Just a quick obeservation: Given the radicalness of the changes suggested by apo 2, I think it's fair to say that the proportion of Perl 5 code that will run unchanged on a Perl 6 interpreter will be heading into single-figure percentages. While I personally think this will be price well worth pa