[ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0

[François Perrad <francois.perrad@...>]

Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running 
dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see 
http://www.parrotcode.org/).
Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.6.0.

A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 (aligned on 5.1.3) is available :
 - an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate 
Representation) that generates PIR
 - a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR)
 - a test suite (more than 980 tests)

For the first time, with Parrot 0.6.0, all garbage collection problems 
seem to be fixed.

Documentation starts in 
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup 
and 
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup.

Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on 
Parrot mailing list (perl6-internals@perl.org).

François Perrad.