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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Perl extension
From: cyberian@arcor.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Schr=F6der?=)

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