From: Mark <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-03-01T03:32:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Compiler [was Introducing myself and my interest in ruby]

Phil Tomson wrote:

>Why not, there's really not code or architecture to Cardinal yet.
>However, I'm proposing that Cardinal just be a 'backend' project 
>(meaning that given some sort of AST it emits Parrot bytecode) and 
>that another frontend project be created to actually Parse Ruby. This 
>frontend project should be architected in such a way that it's easy to 
>plug in different backends.
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This sounds like a good idea. I guess the first step is to agree on the 
AST format to use.

>It could be that this frontend project already exists (I would tend to 
>thing so) in the form of Ripper or Ruth or Rockit.  We just need to get a 
>consensus as to which of those projects to direct resources toward.
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I agree that working out which of these projects to focus on would be useful

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Mark Sparshatt