It seems to me that what I mostly do is wave my arms about my head with a concern and then stay silent whenever praise is required. Everyone - consider yourselves praised :-)
On to the concern (which I am fairly confident someone will obviate). I've never touched the Perl internals (and P5P should be thankful of that) so I'm not sure how much the parser changes. I worry that, since the rules that the Perl 6 grammer uses to parse the language are exposed to the users, that we could be forced to have an ever growing Perl 6 grammer to keep bakcwards compatability. If a reorganization of the parser ever occured, the language level rules would need to be maintained so that a) lexically scoped grammer changes do not break and b) those rules which are useful to all different kinds of parsing tasks (such as parsing quoted constructs) are still there for those programs which will inevitably use them. How are we planning on dealing with this, or do the implementers consider it a non issue? It seems to me that we are forced to do it (meaning the parser) right and cleanly the first time, which is a reasonable but heavy burden. -Erik Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
