Interesting - my approach is to have the entire thing written in php so there is no incurred "cost" of having to install anything or compile from one framework to another.
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?