OpenEuphoria

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:

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> 
> 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