[ruby-talk:04296] Re: Content of the Perl6 talk

Hi,

FYI: Guido van Rossum wrote (on comp.lang.python):

> Moshe Zadka <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >
> > > Probably much more useful, if possible, would be to modularize some
> > > key functionality that the languages have in common.  The only example
> > > I can think of off hand would be a regexp engine.  It's kind of silly
> > > that all three languages would support the same syntax and largely the
> > > same features and functionality with entirely different code bases.
> >
> > Sadly, even that's not really true. You can ask Andrew about the wonderful
> > fun he had trying to pry Perl's regexp engine from the clutch of
> > interdependancies. Perl's regexps are part of the language, and the
> > language is part of them (e.g., /e).
>
> But that applies to the current (Perl 5.x) codebase.  For Perl 6 they
> are going to rewrite everything from scratch as far as I understand,
> so there should be some hope.  Heck, maybe Effbot can offer SRE as a
> starting point!  Most of his code doesn't deal with Python objects at
> all, just arrays of chars and shorts.

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Conrad Schneiker
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