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

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Adam Turoff wrote:

> to write the Perl tokenizer in a Perl[56] regex, which is more easily 
> parsable in C.  All of a sudden, toke.c is replaced by toke.re, which
> would be much more legible to this community (which is more of a strike
> against toke.c instead of a benefit of some toke.re).

Larry brought this up in his talk.  Of course, I believe that Larry was
sleep-deprived at the time, too.  ;)

> It was late though.  Might have been sleep deprevation talking.


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