Larry Wall wrote:
>
> Dan Sugalski writes:
> : 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... :)
>
> I was wondering this morning whether we ought to write the Perl 6
> parser as a set of recursive regexes. Might make it easier to plug in
> new productions on the fly. And designing the parser around regexes
> might indicate ways in which Perl's regexes are not yet powerful
> enough.
>
> Larry
That would be coolness.
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