Andy Dougherty writes:
> Now matter how we slice it, it's going to be very hard for the first
> person to twist perl6 to parse something that is both complex and very
> different from Perl6. And I'm unconvinced that this difficulty ought to
> hold up the entire process. It would be quite ironic
Nicholas Clark writes:
> Would it be sane to get the parser to return suitable information on the
> source to let a syntax analyser (such as a highlighting editor) know that
> character positions 5123 to 5146 are a qq() string (So it can change the
> font or the colour or whatever)
I think the pr
Another point re: the parsing process. I think it should be possible
for any of the steps or extensions to be defined as C code or as Perl
code. We're already shooting to have C subs isomorphic with Perl subs
so this shouldn't be a problem, just something to keep in mind.
Nat
