Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you seen http://search.cpan.org/doc/GREGOR/psh-0.008/doc/psh.pod and
> the other tools it references? I haven't used it/them myself - what you
> propose has never itched enough for me to scratch it with anything more
> than a one-liner - but it appears to have the kind of features you
> want.
psh doesn't quite do what I'd like. In particular, it only handles
multi-line commands by looking for unbalanced constructs. So "sub foo
{" (on one line) forces a continuation, but "2+" (on one line) is a
syntax error.
A new version of the RFC (which doesn't appear to have propogated yet)
says a few more words about psh.
> Does what you want need to be in the core?
Of course not. What's needed is a large enough hook into the Perl
parser. In particular, something I can pass a string and know if it
has a chance of being completed into a syntactically legal construct
(this is a difference between "2+" and "))};;").
Access to the parser needs to be in the core...
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