Re: To get things started...

Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> wrote:

 > At 10:37 AM 11/21/00 +0000, David Grove wrote:
 > >Thanks for the clarifications, Simon.
 > >
 > >Simon Cozens <[email protected]> wrote:
 > >If we were simply feeding it perl with a single syntax, we could get
away
 > >with a "one call" scheme. But since we're dealing with almost
certainly
 > >mutually exclusive syntax and semantics, it probably needs more
 > >information.
 > 
 > But we are. The call is probably going to be something like:
 > 
 >    status = parse_perl(perl_interpreter *my_interp,
 >                         char *script,
 >                        struct HIR *end_result,
 >                        long flags);
 > 
 > the fact that the script has a "use pythonish;" in it is entirely 
 > irrelevant--the program calls into the parser, which returns a status
and 
 > possibly a parsed representation of the program. The parser gets to
deal 
 > with all the grotty details.

What form is this intermediary parsed representation in? API, right? Then
I need to clarify that when I say bytecode, I've meant whatever this
intermediary parsed representation is, be that pure perl, API, or
otherwise.

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