Hi Bennett,
There are many situations that require non-contextfree languages. Even
though much of these could be solved in the AST-building step (called
'transduction' in my days) instead of the parsing step, that does not
solve all cases. I am just wondering if and to what extent we can parse
non-CF languages with perl6. The reference to Perl5 is not appropriate,
because a programming language is supposed to be designed to be
relatively easy to parse. The language designer will have the need for
an interpreter for the language high on his/her list of priorities.
It all boils down to the question: does a Grammar allow a rule that
depends on a function instead of being constant.
I am not shocked if it is impossible, I just want to know how far perl6
takes me.
Theo
Bennett Todd schreef op 2016-09-13 16:35:
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.
