John Tobey <jtobey(a)channel1.com> writes:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
wrote:
> But using "flexibility" and "Mule" in the same sentence scares
me.
> Mule is not flexible; we are not yet at a stage where we can have
> efficiency in multi-lingual code without extreme discipline.
Efficiency can wait. At the moment I am more interested in tuning the
semantics of Perl as Emacs language and Perl as Lisp extension.
I agree. You can start out by just converting strings around. If you
don't understand what that means, read the "Mule Coding" section of
the Internals manual.