Re: Perl's parser and lexer will likely be in Perl (was Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:22 AM 10/17/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Simon Cozens wrote:
> >
> > Currently, the tokeniser and the lexer are a combined entity.
>
>Yes, in the vast majority of languages; so people get used to thinking
>that it has to be this way.

I'd just as soon we thought a bit differently. I'm not sure we want to 
split the lexer and tokenizer out, but I don't want to rule out the 
possibility. It's looking like a goodly portion of the 
lexing/tokenizing/parsing bit of perl 6 will be written in perl, so I'm not 
sure how things are going to split out just yet.

I don't suppose anyone's got code to translate a perl regex into C?

                                        Dan

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