From: 'Brian Ingerson' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On 13/12/01 11:15 -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > > From: Brian Ingerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Unless the documentation is out of date, and you're > > refering to a new feature... I believe you are > > mistaken. P::RD just allows you to precompile > > the grammar's rules not a whole parser. > > Well that sucks. > > Time for plan B.
You'd mentioned previously that DCONWAY had written a P::RD-free C parser using regular expressions. Whatever became of it? What are it's negatives? And out of curiousity's sake could you post it to the list? If I recall correctly, Larry wants Perl to parse perl for Perl6. And he wants to do it by modifying Perl's regular expressions to foot the bill. I haven't heard much more than that, but believe Damian Conway's name is involved. I'm kind of wondering out loud if there's anything going on in that direction which might apply and be useful in the context of fast pure perl Inline parsers. Also on a not too useful, but related note... people might want to check out the little languages section of the Parrot project. These little languages compilers parsers are written in pure perl and target Parrot assembly code.
