August 2015 Archives

Perlito - reviewing some older code

Today I've finally updated the Perlito compiler ChangeLog, this covers a little more than a year of commits.

The most significant update was the new Perlito5-to-Java backend, which is work-in-progress. It covers a lot of ground, but there is a lot more.

There were also some interesting new Perlito5-to-Javascript features, such as regex /e modifier, and file operators support in nodejs.

The Perl6 backends have not been updated, but things still work.

While reviewing the README-perlito6 file, I've found some interesting stuff that I haven't touched in a while - here is a piece of generated code that goes through 3 different languages:

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