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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, John Porter wrote: > Brock wrote: > > > > This parser would output a Parse Tree, which could then be traversed. > > Traversal could be done either in perl, or in the proposed meta-language, > > though I'd prefer a perl solution. > > I think Brock makes a good point: the compiler and interpreter could be > cleanly separated; of course, they both need to be new in the perl6 > project; but the interpreter, for example, could be functionally > equivalent to the one in the current perl5. The (new) compiler could > be made perl5-compatible at first, and changed (since it will now be > easy to change) as perl6 is developed. Or we could just leave it at > that and declare victory. :-) > The interpreter would be Just Another Backend. --Brock