At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:45:23 +0100 (BST), Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk
> > > > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :)
> > >
> > > What does it do?
> >
> > It, er... parses Perl.
>
> ooh! I though only perl parsed perl.. how exactly does it parse
> perl... no its okay I'll look at the pod.. /me cpan's.
Well, I wouldn't look for it just yet. It's only a mad idea right now.
The phrase you're looking for is "only perl can parse Perl", but if
you look at Damian Conway's projects page at
<http://www.yetanother.org/damian/projects.html> you'll see that he's
planning a Parse::Perl module which will allow Perl (as opposed to perl)
to parse Perl. My proposed module builds on that.
And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate.
I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description would be
that it parses approximate Perl.
Is that any clearer?
Dave...
