Dan Sugalski wrote: > Numeric constants will probably fall into two classes--those perl's parser > knows about and can convert to, and those it doesn't and just treats as > strings. I'm really excited to see what magic Larry is going to cook up for extending the lexer and parser. His talk made it pretty clear that he wants to make small languages easy to build from the Perl core. If Larry does what I'm hoping, we'll be able to extend the lexer to recognize new number formats and not have to kludge things together with strings. Am I reading too much into the Atlanta talk or is that your take on it too? - Ken
