wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: > > > SL Baur <steve(a)vmailer.xemacs.org&gt; writes: > > > > > I have tentatively approved Michael Sperber's plan for addressing Lisp > > > Engine updates. As I understand it, it does not involve commitment to > > > anything specific until all the issues have been hashed out. > > > > If it doesn't involve commitment to anything specific, then what is > > Michael's plan, exactly? I'd like to know what we are agreeing with, if > > anything. > > I believe the plan was to do something similar to what Perl/Tk does to > uncouple Tcl and Tk. You'd have a generic scripting language API to > set/get variables, call functions, etc. OK, but... I have no idea what Perl/Tk does, really. Uncoupling Emacs from its current scripting language sounds nice, but is in fact pretty hard, because the internals are making heavy use of the object system (Fcons, GC, ...)

> What would be really cool is to be able to have 2 scripting > languages loaded at one time. :) Anyone seen the 'perlmacs' patch in > the perl CPAN archives? I've seen it, but that hack hasn't gained much popularity, it seems.