Re: pdd19_pir.pod: See C<docs/imcc/macros.pod>

[Allison Randal <allison@perl.org>]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> > That's backwards. Loading the language module is what registers the  
> > compiler. The user never needs to access the compiler object for a  
> > particular language directly unless they're compiling code from a string.
> ..or if they want to parse a namespace string according to another
> HLL's rules, obtain a namespace from another HLL, or load a library
> associated with a different HLL.  (See pdd21 - namespaces.)
I've always assumed that those behaviors would be hidden behind methods 
on the namespace PMC, which would delegate them to the appropriate 
compiler PMC.
Allison