From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-18T09:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating Perl -> Ruby translation?

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> Well, I'd settle for a very crude tool.
[snip]
> You'd be surprised how much progress I
> made just by saying :%s/my $//g in vi.

I wonder how hard it'd be to make a "very crude" tool.  That might be
more doable.  Let's see, off the top of my head:

1.- Delete 'my $', 'my @', 'my %'.
2.- Delete '{'
3.- Replace '}' by 'end'.
4.- Make a list of methods and reverse the 'words' to create a more OO
syntax:

e.g.

  sort @array => array.sort


> As for XS: I don't know what it is.

A tool for making Perl extensions in C, akin to SWIG but Perl-specific.  I
like SWIG better.

> I do have two or three things I want
> to translate. If I had a tool, I would
> use it, and others might also.

Send me one of them (the simplest one).  I'm curious as to how difficult a
crude tool would be.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137