[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: > >Compilation's just execution of a regex, albeit the Perl6::Grammar::program > >regex, and that regex will need to be modified while it's in operation in > >order to pick up macro "is parsed" definitions and apply them to the rest > >of what it's parsing. > > Ah, damn, I wasn't thinking far enough out.
This, you see, is precisely why some of us started work last year on a regular expression engine which could handle having its expressions rewritten during the match... ;) -- Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. -- Steven Wright