# $File: //member/autrijus/Lingua-Sinica-PerlYuYan/README $ $Author: autrijus $
# $Revision: #2 $ $Change: 706 $ $DateTime: 2002/08/18 03:49:00 $

This is the README file for Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan, a simple
source filter that lets you write perl in Chinese.
lacnauge-pack for perl.

* Installation

Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan uses the standard perl module install process:

cpansign -v		# see SIGNATURE for details
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

* Copyright

Copyright 2001, 2002 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

All rights reserved.  You can redistribute and/or modify
this bundle under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>.

* Introduction

The Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan makes it makes it possible to write
Perl programs in Chinese. (If you have to ask "Why?", please refer to
Lingua::Romana::Perligata for related information.)

This module uses the single-character property of Chinese to disambiguate
between keyword matches; whitespaces could be omitted this way, much
as in real Chinese writings.

The vocabulary is of the WenYanWen (¤å¨¥¤å, literary text) mode, not
much used in modern Chinese, which prefers the BaiHuaWen (¥Õ¸Ü¤å, spoken
text) with multiple-syllable words.