RE: Perl6 -- what is in a name?

2002-01-29 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Melvin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > At 01:52 PM 1/28/2002 -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > >From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Aaron Sherman: > > > # > > > # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, > > > # and think "hey, I know Perl, no sweat" will di

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Simon Cozens
begin quote from Simon Cozens: > This is my new toy. It's not perfect. I know what's lacking and I know > how to fix it, but time is always against us. You don't need any > documentation, you're intelligent people. Feed some code to > Perl6::Tokeniser::toke, and it'll give you an array. An enhan

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Simon Cozens wrote in perl.perl6.language: > > An enhanced version of this (with documentation, no less) is available > from CPAN. I'll be releasing updates to there. There are a few things > I need to fix, but this should be enough to start sensible parser work, > which I intend to in the near f

Re: Perl6::Tokeniser

2002-01-29 Thread Simon Cozens
begin quote from Rafael Garcia-Suarez: > Out of curiosity, what kind of parser do you intend to write ? A > Parse::RecDescent one ? Parse::Yapp. > Have you an idea about what will be the 'final' > parser for the Perl 6 compiler ? (LALR(1), like Perl 5 ?) Yep, LALR1, probably yacc generated.

Re: What can be hyperoperated?

2002-01-29 Thread Dave Storrs
Note: I'm actually not talking about hyperoperators below, or map/grep/sort. Just 'for'. On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:32:06 -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > @result = for @a; @b -> $a; $b { $a op $b } I'd like to chime in withthe people who have already said that the semicolons are a bit confu