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horos (lists.bootstrap): >Well, I was talking in terms of PR value. I like perl's syntax just fine, >but being constrained by its extensive hairiness. I'm trusting that >'reasonable' LALR grammars can be made which closely approximate the current >syntax. That takes rather a lot of trust. :) I concede that it might just be possible, but any potential implementor *will* lose their mind. Having a combined lexer-parser may freak out you computer scientists, but for us computational linguists, it's standard NLP practise. -- Apr 13 11:05:20 apollo13 fsck[3927]: root, we have a problem. - Jeff Gostin <jgostin@shell2.ba.best.com>