Perl 6 Compiler Perl 6 Compiler Status and the Parrot Compiler Toolkit #32

Transforming parse to PAST

perl6 uses a tree grammar (TGE) to perform the parse tree to PAST transformation.

A typical transformation is given on the next slide.

Note that we're still changing the syntax (and what I have here might already be out of date).

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