From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T19:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: A vision for Parrot

Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net> writes:

> Walter Roberson wrote:
> > 
[...] 
> > Speaking of layers: I take it that some thought has been put into
> > how to do operating-system escapes? So that one can (for example)
> > handle graphics? Or even just sockets? Seeing as some of the most
> > popular interpreted languages are by no means restricted to text-only
> > and have networking capabilities?
> 
> Remember, the parrot interpreter is written in C... it has to be. 
> Obviously, one would have parrot opcodes which result in calls to C
> functions, which perform socket operations or graphics or whatever.
> 

I dont't think it will be opcodes, but rather a combination of loadlib
(load a DLL) and dlfunc (create a parrot-callable subroutine from a
DLL function). See core.ops.

Regards,
	Slaven

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