Re: Redoing the current tag/property parser in a real grammar [was: Re: [RFC] Quoting property names in tag/property matches]

2023-09-03 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Jens Schmidt writes: >> Backward compatibility will be easy - just leave the current code when >> old query version is detected. We should better focus on the new syntax >> in future and leave the current syntax as compatibility layer that will >> be eventually deprecated. > > Agreed except for

Re: Redoing the current tag/property parser in a real grammar [was: Re: [RFC] Quoting property names in tag/property matches]

2023-09-02 Thread Jens Schmidt
On 2023-09-02 09:10, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > Jens Schmidt writes: >> This all calls for a proper parser, based on peg or bovine or whatever. >> Hopefully that parser would still keep backward compatibility, but >> that's probably wishful thinking. > > Backward compatibility will be easy - just