Dan Sugalski: > At 6:07 PM -0500 4/4/02, Melvin Smith wrote: > >I also remember there was work already in progress, Simon Cozens mailed > >out a tokenizer and I recall Damian Conway saying he was going to deliver > >a parser (maybe I'm confused as I often am)? I assume this could be reused, > >else we end up with 2 architectures of compiler for Perl5 and Perl6. > > Damian's not working on the perl 6 parser, and never was. Dunno where > the assumption that he was got started.
That's a shame. He said that Parse::Perl was one of his deliverables for this quarter; I think that's where the confusion comes from. Perl6::Tokenise is sufficiently flexible that it can be turned into a Perl 5 tokeniser with minimal changes to the ruleset. Indeed, it should really be changed so that the ruleset is part of the tokeniser object, so you can slot in and out rulesets as necessary. (And it will be necessary. Remember that when you see "package" in Perl 6, you're talking Perl 5 again. Oh, and it'll be necessary for regexps, quoted strings and all other "subtokenisation" tasks.) I'd do that, but once again, ENOTIME. If anyone wants to take the module over, please do. -- Oh my god! They killed Kennedy! -- edfromo
