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Postings from July 2000
>Why can't perl ultimately support multiple syntax conventions? Why >can't the lexer/parser be pluggable? Is one discussing a discrete language or an amorphous metalanguage the likes of which would make the most tortuous of cpp abominations seem direct and obvious? If, as it would appear, the answer is that it is the latter situation rather than the former which is under discussion, this begs various questions, the first and foremost of which must of course be: "Why a metalanguage?" --tom