At 12:48 PM 10/25/00 -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
>If Larry does what I'm hoping, we'll be able to extend the lexer to
>recognize new number formats and not have to kludge things together with
>strings. Am I reading too much into the Atlanta talk or is that your
>take on it too?
I think you're likely ri
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Numeric constants will probably fall into two classes--those perl's parser
> knows about and can convert to, and those it doesn't and just treats as
> strings.
I'm really excited to see what magic Larry is going to cook up for
extending the lexer and parser. His talk made it