TITLE
Saving and restoring the state of Parrot m4
Why?
Performance
How?
Command line args. --freeze-state=s --reload-state=s
Format of the freeze file
Each macro is desrcibed in two lines. The first line looks like 'F8,8'. The second looks like: 'translittranslit' The First letter is a flag:
C Change comment character
D A diversion, expects a negative number first
F a builtin macro
T a user defined macro
Q Change quote character
V Validate versionExample
Explaination
Syntax
See languages/m4/tools/frozen2yaml.pl
frozen2yaml
Parses a frozen file and returns it's data as YAML. perl frozen2yaml.pl ../examples/only_builtin.frozen
Using Parrot m4 with Introspector
TODO: Install Introspector.