[ruby-talk:00970] Re: Ruby compileable by C++ compiler?

Hi,

Yukihiro Matsumoto writes:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:00965] Re: Ruby compileable by C++ compiler?"
>     on 99/12/10, YANAGAWA Kazuhisa <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> |There are many good tools for converting source between K&R-ANSI, so a
> |programmer's favorite should be important. Therefore I think the style
> |of ruby's source should be style the author of ruby like.
> 
> I really hope the converting tools work fine.  But it's the time Perl6
> may be implemented in C++, even though Larry hates C++.

ahhh ... I don't like to be the one how give you bad news ... :-(

But after yanagawa kazuhisa has mentioned 'protoize' I suddenly
remember of that tool and tried to use it! But with no luck.

Even after conversion, ANSI-C will not compile it! There are much
warnings and a few errors. E.g. in file 'parse.y', function
'rb_yyparse', the function 'call_op' will be called three times with
too few arguments in line 715, 727 and 789.

And if I try, nevertheless, to compile it with a C++ compiler
... BAMPF!!!

I think, there is much to do *after* protoization. But I wouldn't try
to do it, if there is no interest in it...

> 
> 							matz.

\cle