In article <87lm1k57gw.fsf / ddtm.simon-cozens.org>,
Simon Cozens  <simon / simon-cozens.org> wrote:
>"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
>The way to do this is to start with Perl's B::Deparse library, which
>turns the AST of a Perl program back into Perl. If you can modify it
>in such a way that it outputs Ruby instead of Perl, then you're made.
>

Ahhh, so such a beast exists...  Well that would certainly help.

What would you do about nasty things like, for example, 'tie'?

Phil
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