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Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)

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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
March 30, 2002 03:04
Subject:
Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)
Message ID:
slrnaab6ig.d6e.rgarciasuarez@rafael.example.com
Michel J Lambert wrote in perl.perl6.language :
> Has anyone done any thinking along the
> lines of how we are implementing the Perl 6 grammer?

Simon Cozens did. I don't know the details exactly.

Note also that the grammar and the parser are not the difficult part;
the perl 5 lexer is very complex (and highly stateful, as opposed as
pure-lex lexers). I don't know how much of the complexity of the lexer
can be reinserted back into the grammar for perl 6.

-- 
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
    If strain on the lexer were a design criterion, I blew it long ago.
	-- Larry Wall, recently

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