Sam Vilain writes:
: On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:26:31 +
: Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: > Why limit Perl to OO and procedural programming at its core?
:
: I just realised my mistake after looking at the hyperoperator discussion:
: Hyperoperators bring functional programming to Perl, w
From: Garrett Goebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> From: Sam Vilain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > So if functional programming can be in Perl 6, why not rules based
> > programming?
>
> Is Parse::RecDescent insufficient for your needs?
Sorry, that was before my morning pot of espresso. I jus
From: Sam Vilain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> So if functional programming can be in Perl 6, why not rules based
> programming?
Is Parse::RecDescent insufficient for your needs?
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:26:31 +
Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why limit Perl to OO and procedural programming at its core?
I just realised my mistake after looking at the hyperoperator discussion:
Hyperoperators bring functional programming to Perl, with all of the mad
but inspired p
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:20:58 +0100
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have always found that the perl output from byacc (with a few tweaks)
> generates a sufficient parser. The addition of a switch statement
> will hopefully make it more efficient.
What you are saying is you are using ya
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:06:14AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:53:19PM +0200, Nadim Khemir wrote:
>
> > > Don't we already have that in Perl 5?
> > >
> > > if ( /\G\s+/gc ) {# whitespaces }
> > >elsif ( /\G[*/+-]/gc ) { # operator }
> > >elsif (
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:53:19PM +0200, Nadim Khemir wrote:
> > Don't we already have that in Perl 5?
> >
> > if ( /\G\s+/gc ) {# whitespaces }
> >elsif ( /\G[*/+-]/gc ) { # operator }
> >elsif ( /\G\d+/gc ) {# term }
> >elsif ( /\G.+/gc ) { # unrecognized
Hi, I found a thread which started with
A proposal for more powerful text processing to be built in to Perl: Flex
and Pushdown Expressions.
> One of the great strengths of Perl is that, more than any other
> language I know, it helps you cross between the "data" space and the
> "program" space:
