Re^5: How does perl's lexer and parser cooperate?

in reply to Re^4: How does perl's lexer and parser cooperate?
in thread How does perl's lexer and parser cooperate?

what's the difference between ival&i_tkval, pval&p_tkval

Not a lot. It's basically a hack to make perly.y function both normally and under -Dmad.

they're never ever called from anywhere

GRAMBLOCK etc are part of recently added parsing API. They're not called by normal perl parsing, only if someone directly calls one of the API functions such as parse_block().

Dave.

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