Perl 6 parser, built in rules, etc.

2002-09-04 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
It seems to me that what I mostly do is wave my arms about my head with a concern and then stay silent whenever praise is required. Everyone - consider yourselves praised :-) On to the concern (which I am fairly confident someone will obviate). I've never touched the Perl internals (and P5P

Re: Perl 6 parser, built in rules, etc.

2002-09-04 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: How are we planning on dealing with this, or do the implementers consider it a non issue? Well, to me this is a non-Yet issue, but a very real issue. I'm hoping that when Perl 6 goes 1.0, the grammar will have seen a lot of testing, and will be

Re: Perl 6 parser, built in rules, etc.

2002-09-04 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:45:37 Sean O'Rourke obviated: To me a language's grammar, once defined, shouldn't do a lot of changing, internally or otherwise. When was the last time C's grammar changed? Or even gcc's implementation of it? Granted . . .mostly. Were talking about Perl, the

Re: Perl 6 parser, built in rules, etc.

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:03 AM -0700 9/4/02, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: -- On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:45:37 Sean O'Rourke obviated: To me a language's grammar, once defined, shouldn't do a lot of changing, internally or otherwise. When was the last time C's grammar changed? Or even gcc's implementation of it?