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

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:18:39PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> Those are hard to understand because so much extra work has to be done to
> compensate for lack of top-down state when doing a bottom-up match.

I haven't found this to be true.

> Since Perl is much more difficult than C++ to parse...

Perl is essentially a natural language processing problem, and so I'd think
twice before hitting it with a pure computer science solution.

Come on, guys, take a look at toke.c; there's a *probabilistic* part-of-speech
tagger in there. This is NLP, and we do things differently.

Have you read this?
ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/pub/TR/93/TR93-0003.ps.gz

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