On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:57 AM, David Green wrote:
> I agree that being able to parse data structure would be *extremely* useful.
> (I think I posted a suggestion like that at one time, though I didn't
> propose any syntax.) There is already a way to parse data -- Signatures,
> but not with th
On 2009-Oct-7, at 5:18 pm, Aaron Sherman wrote:
This should be powerful enough to match any arbitrarily nested set of
iterable objects. I think it will be particularly useful against parse
trees (and similar structures such as XML/HTML DOMs) and scanner
productions, though users will probably fin
Sorry, I accidentally took the thread off-list. Re-posting some of my
comments below:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Aaron Sherman wrote:
>> One of the first things that's becoming obvious to me in playing with
>> Rakudo's rules is that parsing strings isn't always what I'm
Aaron Sherman wrote:
> One of the first things that's becoming obvious to me in playing with
> Rakudo's rules is that parsing strings isn't always what I'm going to
> want to do. The most common example of wanting to parse data that's
> not in string form is the YACC scenario where you want to have
