Re: Writing Interpreters, Compilers and Translators in Perl

[blazar]

or perhaps Perl 6 considerations I might want to address early

That's certainly a topic I would like to hear about. We recommend people to try to avoid naive regex based parsing and lexing all the time for anything that is moderately complex, and to use a proper dedicated tool instead, like P::RD. But the whole idea of regexen being promoted to "rules" possibly gathered in grammars sheds a new light on the issue and indeed in a very exciting manner.

[Moron]

Thanks, a good pointer - I'll have to investigate the Perl 6 rules facilities more thoroughly now and see how much I can bring on board. Do you know of any reference links to help me there?

[blazar]

I'll have to investigate the Perl 6 rules facilities more thoroughly now and see how much I can bring on board. Do you know of any reference links to help me there?

Well, there's Synopsis 5. Also see the comment about the standard grammar in a recent article by TimToady.

[Moron]

I mean for Perl 6 - but thanks for the link anyway.