On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's OK - a definite "no" was one of the possible responses I asked
> for, so thanks :-)
>
> Out of interest, is this just a design decision, or are there
> fundamental reasons why it's hard? At first glance, I would have
> thought that having a check in the parser just before the number
> conversion code, to run a user-defined "do you know how to parse
> this?" hook, would be easy enough.

The problem is making it composable. What if one vocabulary wants to
define 1d2 to mean a dice roll, and another one wants to use this
syntax for a decimal float?

Slava

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