Re: Perl's parser and lexer will likely be in Perl (was Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...)

[John Porter]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> Currently, the tokeniser and the lexer are a combined entity. 

Yes, in the vast majority of languages; so people get used to thinking
that it has to be this way.


> my preferred solution would be to have the tokenizer,
> lexer and parser as a single, hand-crafted LR(k) monstrosity.

This is a case of me agreeing with Simon 1000%.
I was going to just let it go by, but I thought it might 
be nice to add my <aol/> for a change.

-- 
John Porter