En op 5 december 2002 sprak Damian Conway: >> Will the new Perl 6 pattern matching be a vast improvement for >> these sort of parsing problems? > > No. Because it still won't do our thinking for us. ;-) > > However, syntactically it will be much cleaner, and it will > probably feature much better debugging tools. Both of which > *will* make a big difference.
When the syntax is known to be correct, these little hand-crafted regex parsers have great appeal. But what about error detection, reporting and recovery? Can that be done nicely with regexen? Will Parse::RecDescent continue as an important module in Perl 6 or will the Perl 6 improvements render it obsolete? /-\ http://www.yahoo.promo.com.au/hint/ - Yahoo! Hint Dropper - Avoid getting hideous gifts this Christmas with Yahoo! Hint Dropper!
