precisely. My ultimate (and totally attainable) goal is for the generated code to actually perform better than the "hand-written" php would for a given task. Re

precisely. My ultimate (and totally attainable) goal is for the generated code to actually perform better than the "hand-written" php would for a given task. Regardless it's fun to go through the r5 spec piece by piece and fully digest it. quote and quasi quote + the macro system are clearly the most interesting pieces and I am striving to not get side tracked and start working on my own flavor of things thus why its nice to fall back on the spec as the initial goal/proof of concept. Are you interested in helping or just disgusted?