I'm not quite sure if you get what we're trying to do. We're not writing a compiler IN Perl, we're writing one FOR Perl. That basically requires us to figure out a way to take Perl's parse tree and somehow encode it into an executable such that we can regenerate it. (crazyinsomniac--I'll be sending you an e-mail soon explaining my idea for this.) The perl source will do all of the parsing for us--we're just parsing its parse trees, so to speak.

Besides, even if we *were* writing a compiler in Perl, we'd probably use Parse::RecDescent. It's easily powerful enough to parse C, and supposedly the next version will be able to parse Perl.

=cut
--Brent Dax

@HPAJ=split("", "rekcaH lreP rentonA tsuJ");
print reverse @HPAJ;  #sucky but who cares?

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In reply to Re: Re: The Perl Compiler (turning perl scripts into binary executables) by BrentDax
in thread The Perl Compiler (turning perl scripts into binary executables) by crazyinsomniac

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