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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:34:19PM -0400, jdporter@min.net wrote:
> > horos wrote:
> > > LALR would be awesome, I would even say essential. It strikes at the heart of
> > > the complaint people have of perl being a 'messy' language, puts it on the the
> > > same playing field as Java and Python.
> >
> > That would tantamount to Perl (aka Larry, aka the Perl community) saying,
> > "We were wrong, Java and Python were right." But we weren't wrong.
>
> Why can't perl ultimately support multiple syntax conventions? Why
> can't the lexer/parser be pluggable?
Why are you calling for a yacc interpreter? The lexer/parser _could_
be pluggable, and this _might_ be a feature of the implementation, but why
would you have this be a requirement of perl6 _per se_?
Peace,
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