Re: Perl extension

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 18:45, Petras Kudaras wrote: > Well, Perl itself does not differentiate from "CPAN modules" or "any other > modules". Once you can load Perl modules and use the functions (or methods, > for that matter), you can use any Perl code, and you are not restricted to > CPAN. Yes, I know, but the mail from Andy sounds like "only" write a wraper that can create instances of Perl objects, call the methods and bring back the result to PHP. > Parrot is a year or so from the final release. However, even so, Sterling > started implementing PHP in Parrot and not the other way round. I thought > PHP6 would have Parrot as its platform? :) This would be great, we'll see in this decade. ;) > I was half hoping that PHP5's __get() and __set() methods could provide a > similar capability when I first read about them, but I have been > dissapointed :/ No, to marriage Perl and PHP is more than some macro magic. :( > There are more: filehandles, dirhandles, & for subs and * for globs. Right, but let first find solutions for the "primitive" problems, before we think about real problems. Regards, Kai