On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:10:11AM -0800, yary wrote: : A slight digression on a point of fact- : : On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote: : ... : > You are correct that the one-pass parsing is non-negotiable; this is : > how humans think, even when dealing with unknown names. : : It's common for people to read a passage twice when encountering : something unfamiliar. That's on the large level. And even on the small : level of reading for the first time, people don't read completely : linearly, "skilled readers make regressions back to material already : read about 15 percent of the time." - : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_in_language_reading (and I : read about that elsewhere years ago, wikipedia happens to be the most : convenient reference.) : : I'm not arguing against 1-pass parsing for Perl6, just reminding that : humans are complicated. And Larry's quote is "how humans think" : whereas the research on eye jumps is about "how humans read" which are : not exactly the same...
True enough; I was thinking primarily about the parsing of spoken speech, where one generally doesn't have the option to replay beyond what you can remember. And Perl 6 is arguably more textual than aural. Larry
