Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:13:30PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Eric Roode writes:
> : John Porter wrote:
> : >IIUC, this ability is precisely what Larry was saying Perl6 would have.
> : 
> : I may have my history wrong here, but didn't Ada try that?
> 
> Not at all.  The syntax of Ada was nailed down tighter that almost any
> language that ever existed.

In a sick way I kinda liked how compilers were able to give out error
messages not unlike:

foo.ada: line 231: Violation of sections 7.8.3, 9.11.5b and 10.0.16: see the LRM.

(LRM being the Language Reference Manual.)  Truly coding by the book.

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