At 2:34 PM -0700 4/5/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > You can do anything you like if you mess with the parser. Changing
>> the rules for recognizing an identifier would be trivial.
>
>Does this refer to messing with the parser... compile time (that is, when
>Perl compiles, not when Perl is compiled)? Or are you actually talking
>about screwing with the Perl source? That'd sure be cool (albeit a little
>weird) to change parsing rules at compile time.
Don't forget, we already change parsing rules at compile time. Perl's
got three (maybe four) different sets of rules as it is:
*) Normal perl
*) Regexes
*) Double-quoted strings
*) Single-quoted strings
Adding another, or changing those, isn't a big deal.
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