Luke Palmer wrote:
This list is for people interested in building the Perl 6 compiler. Now
you have your first real task!
We have to make a formal grammar for Perl 6. Perl 6 is a huge language,
so the task seems better done incrementally by the community...
Send patches to this list.
OK, I'll
Luke Blanshard wrote:
# Next comes any number of single characters or nested =begin/
# =end blocks -- but the smallest number that will match...
[ . | «pod_begin_end_block» ]*?
Actually I think that alternation needs to be in the other order,
doesn't it? (This is within
Luke Palmer wrote:
[By the way, shouldn't this grammar be called "Perl" rather than
"Perl6::Grammar"?...
Grammars and classes share a namespace, so I think Perl::Grammar is
correct...
I got the name Perl for the grammar from S05, which also gives this example:
given $source_code {
David Storrs wrote:
Out of curiosity, why are we all spelling 'subject' without a 'c'?
Or is 'subjet' a word I'm not familiar with? (Honest question.)
I assume it's a spelling error on the part of the original poster.
French for "subject" is "sujet" (IIRC), and "subjet" looks like a cross
between
