Still playing with Marpa. Recently released a small utility to calculate 
dates: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::datecalc

The calculator allows writing date literals in the form of YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 
2014-05-20. Other allowable literals include date duration in the form of 
ISO 8601 notation (e.g. P1Y2M3D) or natural (e.g. "1 year 2 months 3 days").

I'm also trying to add some numeric arithmetics capability to the 
calculator, so it can do simple arithmetics on numbers e.g. '2014 - 10' 
(2004) or '3*2 * P1D' (meaning 6 times the duration of 1 day).

And that's where I'm currently stuck. My latest attempt at the time of this 
writing: 
https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-App-datecalc/commit/3df0bd0cc681be7bd3a535469ac0fbe439df7deb

If I define op_addsub ~ [+-] then Marpa will treat a date literal 
'2014-05-20' as subtraction operation, yielding 1979. If I require 
whitespaces around the subtraction operator (i.e. op_addsub ~ [+] | ' - ') 
then Marpa will refuse to parse '1-2' (no whitespaces around the minus 
sign). Moreover, DATE-DATE (subtraction of two dates) doesn't work anymore.

Pointers are very much appreciated.

Regards,
Steven

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