RE: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-30 Thread Angel Faus
Simon wrote: : 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. I recall reading somewhere that Perl6 was going to be parsed by something very much like Parse::RecDescent, just that faster. ¿has

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-30 Thread Simon Cozens
begin quote from Angel Faus: I recall reading somewhere that Perl6 was going to be parsed by something very much like Parse::RecDescent, just that faster. Damian was meant to be writing Parse::FastDescent and then Parse::Perl, but as we all know, he's a Very Busy Man. If anyone *wants* to try

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-30 Thread damian
Damian was meant to be writing Parse::FastDescent and then Parse::Perl,but as we all know, he's a Very Busy Man. Indeed. But my 2002 Perl Foundation grant list those two modules (only!) as deliverables. I'd say they'll be delivered -- probably by Christmas ;-) Damian

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: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-27 Thread Brent Dax
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. # # Parser coming soon.