Re: The new api groups

Ok, so I'm not off in la-la land. See you in parser. I have a couple
things you might like...

Thanks, Dan

pete

Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> wrote:

 > At 12:17 AM 11/14/00 +0000, David Grove wrote:
 > >Dan & al.,
 > >
 > >I'm very surprised to see planning groups for api and parsing for
perl6
 > >springing up, with goals of providing RFC's in nine days. This is
rather
 > >confusing given that Larry hasn't yet (that I'm aware of) determined
what
 > >Perl6 will even look like, what, if any, new keywords will be there,
what
 > >will be features of the language, etc. Planning a map from "here" to
 > >"there" doesn't sound quite feasible when we don't know where "there"
is.
 > >What am I missing?
 > 
 > Well, the APIs are for the most part independent of what Larry's
 > doing--the 
 > API an interpreter presents to an extension doesn't have much to do
with 
 > what the language looks like.
 > 
 > The deadlines are so close mainly because things got held up a bit. I
 > asked 
 > Ask to set them up just before the mail loop from hell caught the
vmsperl 
 > and p5p lists, so the deadlines are shorter than they need to be.
 > 
 > (Though I don't think we really need more than a few weeks to get a
good 
 > set of working RFCs for this, though of course they'll get amended and 
 > expanded as work proceeds)
 > 
 > 					Dan
 > 
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