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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > I think that a (non absolute) goal of perl6's grammar should be that it > is a near to yacc/byacc/bison/yapp LALR(1) as is possible without quite so > much hackery in the lexer. Some hackery in the lexer is not uncommon > even in "pure" yacc languages (even C needs to notice typedefs), but perl5 > has gone too far. Does that mean you think a rewite could yeild support for perl5's "flexible" grammer in a better way, or that you think the grammar should be simplified to make it easier to parse? -sam