Re: Front End? (Was: Re: async problem)
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Dec 29, 2003
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On 29 Dec 2003, at 15:22, C. K. Lester wrote: > > > Robert Craig wrote: > > > > > C. K. Lester wrote: > > > >> Could I get more info on this "front-end" thingie? I still don't know > >> what that's all about. > > > > By "front-end", I mean Euphoria's scanner, parser > > and Intermediate Language (IL) emitter. I'm rewriting > > all that in Euphoria itself. It's currently all written in C. > > By "back_end", I mean the engine that executes the IL, > > or, in the case of the Translator, the code that translates > > the IL into C. The translator back-end will also be rewritten > > from C into Euphoria. Only the interpreter back-end > > and Translator libraries will remain in C. > > What I really want to know is, "What does it mean for the end user?" > Will I notice any difference in how I currently develop programs, or is > all this going to be changes behind the scenes? Specifically, what can we access that we cannot now? The list of variable names and what they contain? A way to trap when contents of vars change, instead of a type check now? Kat