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At 06:05 PM 8/29/00 +0000, Jim Edwards wrote:
>IMHO if the perl6 core only allow access to the parser, than a module can
>do just about anything including all of those things proposed in RFC 115 - 117.
That's sort of on the list of things to allow (I think Damian RFC'd it) but
whether it happens depends on the resulting parse speed. Hardcoded parsers
seem to run faster than more dynamic, extendable ones, so it might cost too
much. OTOH, parse speeds might end up being a trivial part of the total
program load/compile time, so it might not matter.
Regardless, you can already do this in perl 5, and will undoubtedly be able
to do it in perl 6, with source filters. (If Damian can write perl that
looks like Latin or Klingon, then python ought to be simple... :)
Dan
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