[Python-Dev] Perl5->Perl6

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:03:42 -0700


Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Perl 5 to perl 6 isn't that tough though (we do chunks of Python and Ruby
> to perl 5, after all), and we do have a full-featured perl 5 parser handy.

You guys are really focused on the syntax, but to me, the difficult
things to handle are subtle *semantic* changes. That's why I said in
another message that a two-interpreter system might be the easiest
route.
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