Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:35 AM 8/19/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>However, for Perl 6 I'd really like to see run-time access to the
>Real Tokenizer (tm):
>
>         use tokenizer;
>
>         my $tree = tokenizer( $sourcecode );
>
>This would be dead handy for building source-code filtering modules,
>rather than relying on the pseudo-parsing tricks we're currently
>forced to use.

Well, sure. You couldn't write an optimizer, bytecode compiler, or bytecode 
execution engine in perl if you couldn't do that... :)

                                        Dan

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