Re: Re: Re: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?

as i further understand it, perl6 will no longer be written in C

I think you may be confusing Perl 6 with Topaz.

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

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Re (tilly) 4: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 04, 2001 at 21:48 UTC
I thought that Perl 6 will largely be written in Perl 6, allowing the base that needs to be implemented natively be as small as possible. Furthermore I heard that there will be multiple implementations of that base, including ones in C, C#, and the JVM. (Or at least that is a pipe dream that people had at one point.) Even if the most commonly used implementation of Perl 6 was written in C, this would make it true in spirit and fact that the overall language is not written in C any more.	[reply]

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Re (tilly) 4: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 04, 2001 at 21:48 UTC

Furthermore I heard that there will be multiple implementations of that base, including ones in C, C#, and the JVM. (Or at least that is a pipe dream that people had at one point.)

Even if the most commonly used implementation of Perl 6 was written in C, this would make it true in spirit and fact that the overall language is not written in C any more.

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