Well put.
The clearest description of Python's approach I've read, explained it as a
lexer that tracked indentation level, and inserted appropriate tokens when it
changed.
Hostile or not, thanks for your informative reply.
Thank you, very much. Yes, I'm disappointed, but I'd rather know.
>
> Having the minutia of the programmatic run-time state of the parse then
> influence the parse itself, is at the heart of the perl5 phenomenon "only
> Perl can parse perl"
I don't mean to be hostile, but you're demonstrably wrong, here. (also it's
"only perl can parse Perl" as in, only the
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:35:01AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> Having the minutia of the programmatic run-time state of the parse then
> influence the parse itself, is at the heart of the perl5 phenomenon "only
> Perl can parse perl", which I rather hope isn't going to be preserved in
> perl6.
Having the minutia of the programmatic run-time state of the parse then
influence the parse itself, is at the heart of the perl5 phenomenon "only Perl
can parse perl", which I rather hope isn't going to be preserved in perl6.
