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Re: Python transformer for Guile?


On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 10:15:34PM +0900, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> 
> if i understood one of lalo martins' comments correctly, it isn't
> necessarily going to be easy to re-use the parsing code for an
> arbitrary implementation of a source language.

Sometimes the code just can't be isolated, sometimes it's
written in a weird language (like Java), sometimes it is too
dependent on the internal data representation of the language,
and sometimes there are licensing issues.

> i don't suppose language implementors can be encourage to implement
> their languages so that the parsing portions can be reused nicely by
> translators...

I don't think so. They will usually prefer to optimize it for
their interpreter. Unless, of course, it's a GNU project (which
is the case for eLisp).

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