By the next supported release of Parrot (3.3), atrodo and I are committed to
producing a spec and an initial implementation of M0*. The spec will take the
form of a series of wiki pages on trac.parrot.org (until it's settled enough
to put elsewhere) and will provide enough information to create a complete and
interoperable M0 VM. This implementation will not include a metaobject
model*, but will provide all the basic building blocks to implement one.
These include the ability to implement structs, hashes, arrays and functions
with arguments. As a way to show the viability of M0, it will also include
simple executable demonstrations of these four concepts.
Thanks,
Christoph
* I use "M0" to refer to the low-level details such as ops, memory layout, etc
and "Lorito" to refer to the whole shebang, including a MOP.
** The plan is that the MOP will be implemented on top of M0 so that only one
implementation will be necessary, keeping with the idea of Lorito as a minimal
VM that Parrot can be built on top of.
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