From: Mark <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T17:36:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Compiler [was Introducing myself and my interest in ruby]

Mark Hubbart wrote:

>
> What are the chances of Cardinal having the ability to emit more than 
> one type of code structure for the tree it parses? Could it possibly 
> end up pluggable?
>
>
It is my intention to do exactly this.

The plan is to write a class that outputs the correct code structure and 
to pass an instance of that class into the compiler.

This is necessary since at somepoint the intermediate compiler will be 
enhanced so that it can accept an abstract syntax tree and generate the 
parrot byte code from that. So at that point it will be very useful to 
be able to switch from outputting intermediate compiler code to just 
serialising the AST.

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Mark Sparshatt