Hi all,
I could use some wisdom from the esteemed monks regarding a mildly insane hobby project of mine.

PPI does not parse expressions into an AST, nor does it assign list/scalar/null context. I’ve implemented that myself and put the code here: https://github.com/Percolisp/pcl.

I wrote this parser because it makes a full Perl ==> Common Lisp transpiler possible. There’s already a prototype compiler in the repository as well; please see REMAINING.md for details. Moo/Moose would likely need to be handled by mapping them onto Common Lisp’s object system. String evals will have to wait until the transpiler itself is transpiled to CL.

I think this could be useful. If nothing else, as a way to take the Lisp S-expression output and translate it into other languages. Does this sound worthwhile, or should I be doing something else instead? 🙂

In reply to I wrote an expression parser for PPI by BerntB

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