RE: Perl6 -- what is in a name?

2002-01-29 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Melvin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 01:52 PM 1/28/2002 -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Aaron Sherman: # # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, # and think hey, I know Perl, no sweat will disagree with #

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Simon Cozens
begin quote from Simon Cozens: This is my new toy. It's not perfect. I know what's lacking and I know how to fix it, but time is always against us. You don't need any documentation, you're intelligent people. Feed some code to Perl6::Tokeniser::toke, and it'll give you an array. An enhanced

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Simon Cozens wrote in perl.perl6.language: An enhanced version of this (with documentation, no less) is available from CPAN. I'll be releasing updates to there. There are a few things I need to fix, but this should be enough to start sensible parser work, which I intend to in the near

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Simon Cozens
begin quote from Rafael Garcia-Suarez: Out of curiosity, what kind of parser do you intend to write ? A Parse::RecDescent one ? Parse::Yapp. Have you an idea about what will be the 'final' parser for the Perl 6 compiler ? (LALR(1), like Perl 5 ?) Yep, LALR1, probably yacc generated.

Re: What can be hyperoperated?

2002-01-29 Thread Dave Storrs
Note: I'm actually not talking about hyperoperators below, or map/grep/sort. Just 'for'. On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:32:06 -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: @result = for @a; @b - $a; $b { $a op $b } I'd like to chime in withthe people who have already said that the semicolons are a bit