Spreadsheet::Perl needs a symbolic to perl parser, please help

Hi,

I wrote Spreadsheet::Perl (SS::P), a spreadshet engine in pure perl. SS::P 
is relatively new and there is lots of things to implement. I am working on 
some pieces but I, shamelessly, ask for code donations (generaly simple and 
short stuff). Håkon Nessjøen has been generous and offered a tabloid dump 
of spreadsheets, the first contribution (coming in the 0.05 release).

What does all this have to do with this list?

I'd like to ask for help for a "symbolic formulas" to "perl formulas" 
translator. SS::P uses perl as it's formula language but some discussion 
has been going for a symbolic syntax à la Gnumeric or Excel.

Could someone on this list be nice enought to offer a translator to perl 
syntax?

Now this is not as trivial as one might think it is because of error 
generated while running the formula. There should be a system to pinpoint 
what in the symbolic formula went wrong but that can be the second step. 
Having a translator and showing the whole formula could be good enough.

That's why I like the pure perl approach, errors are perl errors.

I also wonder if using Math::Symbolic wouldn't be another good approach?

Cheers, Nadim.