[mercury-users] Leveraging Perl

[Fergus Henderson]

On 26-Apr-2001, Terrence Brannon <princepawn at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> The amount of free modules available from the Perl community is
> staggering. I have often longed to simply drop Perl and become a
> Mercury expert, but for pragmatic reasons it may be better to marry
> the two. What would be the best way to take advantage of Perl
> functionality within Mercury?
>
> The two general approaches would be a Perl-to-Mercury compiler

Hmm, sounds like my worst nightmare ;-)

> or some sort of C interface to the Perl interpreter.

That sounds more feasible.  But still a little tricky.

The other alternative is just invoking the Perl interpreter
as a separate process from within Mercury programs, or vice
versa.  (E.g. using a procedure which is a thin layer around
io__call_system_command.)

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