Will_the_Chill,

Good Research!

I hope you noticed my interest in the topic Perl 5 Compiler, Again! which was a direct result of your original post. If you did you may have noticed the answer from rurban of:

perl5 opcodes change from release to release, there's no discipline. p5 devs do not want to have bytecode discipline.

parrot was designed to have bytecode discipline originally (and be platform independent), but both of these goals were thrown away without discussion at v1.0. That's why I left the project in protest.

clarified for me why the 'compiler' topic is near impossible to solve.

This guarantees that each release of Perl requires a re-compile of all scripts or just keep all scripts as source-code. Until that explanation I just couldn't understand the real problem.

Since both 'perl5' and 'perl6' have dropped the concept, maybe it's time for 'perl7' :-)

Good Luck...Ed

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