$I0 = defined $P0[0]
   $P1 = clone $P2

but these were handled with explicite rules. And I found me often writing:

   len = length $S0

which wasn't a valid syntax.

I've now tossed the special handling of defined and clone. Instead PIR
allows now generally to write

   lhs = PARROT_OP args

so these instructions:

     $I0 = defined a
     $I0 = defined a[0]
     b = clone a
     $I0 = length s
     $N0 = sin 0
     $I0 = can $P0, "puts"
     $I0 = isa $P0, "scalar"

are now (amongst many more) valid PIR syntax. There are currently no
checks, if this instructions is something meaningfull too. It's just
converted to

   PARROT_OP lhs[, args]

So you can write:

    $I0 = add 10, 20

or even:
.sub _main
     $P0 = find_global "_s"
     $P0 = invokecc
     $S0 = "done\n"
     $S0 = print
     end
.end
.sub _s
     print "in sub\n"
     P1 = invoke
.end

where it really gets ugly. We could of course limit this syntax to more
useful constructs.

leo