In article <034a01c2be07$95670380$0300a8c0 / austin.rr.com>, Hal E. Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote: >Has anyone given any thought to this >issue? > >Yes, I'm well aware that you can't get >a "good" translation... I'd settle for >something that did 80% of the grunt >work. Then I could iron out the rest >and hammer it into OO form. > >Come on, someone... > Parsing Perl is not easy... Is there any tool for Perl that gives you a parse tree of some Perl script? If there is then that'd be a good place to start. Otherwise, I think that it's mostly wasted effort.... better to spend energy trying to get something like Cardinal working. Phil -- "Or perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts?" Amy Weiss (accusing theregister.co.uk of engaging in 'tabloid journalism') Senior VP, Communications Recording Industry Association of America