From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T02:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: more parrot-questions..

At 01:46 AM 1/13/2002 +0900, ; wrote:
>In article <5.1.0.14.2.20020103165810.021b0eb8@pop.sidhe.org>,
>Dan Sugalski  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
> >
> >Yes. There might be a thunking layer to allow either ruby or python c
> >modules to be compiled for Parrot, but I'm neither guaranteeing that, nor
> >the efficiency of it if it exists. (Perl 5's API will *not* be supported
> >(and a great sigh of relief arose from most folks who've had to write perl
> >extensions in C...))
>
>- - YEAH! Do you have anything that says what will be supported for
>   writing extensions?

At the moment, no. Mainly for scheduling reasons--it's not quite made it up 
the todo list yet.

>Will the new model be that you write to the
>   "Parrot Extension API" and then the module will be available in
>   some form to all parrot-capable languages?

Yes. The interface might be a bit unnatural depending on the bent of the 
person writing the extension (If someone writes it in Scheme style, say) 
but it'll work.

					Dan

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