Re: To get things started...

At 09:06 AM 11/22/00 +0000, David Grove wrote:
>Anyway, I'm trying to fit the definitions Dan offered yesterday with what
>has been said so far. Not everything seems to fit. One obvious question is
>that "the functions that are presented to the world" refers to functions
>like SvPV() (C language) and not index(), substr() (perl language),
>correct?

Sort of. More like the functions exported by a module to things that 
subclass the module and need Special Access(tm). So the world might not see 
perl_add_token_check(), but the parser would provide it to parser extensions.

Also, check the bibliography that got posted to perl6-meta--the advanced 
compiler book I put on the list is one I rather like.

					Dan

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