>: =item * Comments >: >: We've already gone over this, but it'd be good to have the ability for >: parsers to (somehow) "feed" into one another, [...] > >... I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility for >Perl 6 to support strings with embedded objects as funny characters. >In the limit, a string could be composed of nothing but a stream >of objects... > >[...] > >Larry
Paul Graham thinks it likely that the Programming Languages of the Future (PLF) will model strings as linked lists of 'characters'. But I like the "stream of objects" concept. It sounds cool!