Tim Bunce wrote: > If the file doesn't start with Perl 6 thingy then > it's Perl 5. Period. To mandate the impossible is to mandate failure. "Nothing can parse perl like Perl." Why is that? > My reading of Larry's comments is that it won't be "in" our "new > beautiful code". [Umm, pride before a fall?] I'd say yes... but whose pride, really? And whose fall? > the parsers are going to be in perl, remember. Sorry, Tim, I must have missed that. Reference, please? > It's quite staggering how much hot air has been > generated from Larry's first significant outline. Much of it missing, > or casually disregarding, key points of deep or subtle meaning. Lofty ideals often must make way for practical realities. -- John Porter Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Peter Scott
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Dan Sugalski
- RE: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... David Whipp
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... Edward Peschko
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Dan Sugalski
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Tim Bunce
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... Ask Bjoern Hansen
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... John Porter
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... Simon Cozens
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's A... Edward Peschko
- Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocal... Dan Sugalski