Re: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
> SL Baur <steve(a)vmailer.xemacs.org> 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.
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