On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ted Zlatanov wrote: > >> is there a plan for P::FD at the moment? After Apocalypse 5, I'm >> very curious how P::FD will use the new Perl 6 regex engine. > > It probably won't. The new regex engine will render P::FD redundant.
I'm all for that. I had previously imagined that P::FD would add functionality to Perl 6, but after A5 and the ensuing discussions I see how the new plan makes sense, and how P::RD factored into the Perl 6 regex engine and parser design. The speed-up from moving parsing functionality into the core should be impressive. > What I'm thinking post-A5 is that the Perl 5 P::FD may be called > Perl6::Regexes instead, and simply implement the A5 design (with > some custom extensions of my own). It wouldn't be a Damian module without custom extensions :) I guess the best thing for now is to wait for the Perl 6 regex engine to come into being in some form. The TODO items look appetizing, especially left-recursion and superpositional parsing. Thanks for the info Ted
