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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:56:56PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > <abigail@foad.org> writes: > > > >I fail to see what LALR is going to gain us on the _P_erl level. > > What it means it you can tell what construct means by looking at next 'symbol' > perl5 contorts itself to be able to use byacc (which is LALR(1)) by making > deciding what the next 'symbol' is rather a complex process in toke.c. Well, yes, I know what LALR parsing is. > As a result the 'grammar' in perly.y does not really describe perl5 that well. > > So making perl6 LALR(1) "from the outset" would give "_P_erl" a more formal > definition. But from the point of view of the language user, the Perl programmer, what will the gain be? What will the *loss* be? Abigail