Re: Searching Perl(5) grammar

chip@rio.atlantic.net (Chip Salzenberg)
16 Oct 1997 00:29:24 -0400

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From: chip@rio.atlantic.net (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.compilers.tools.pccts
Date: 16 Oct 1997 00:29:24 -0400
Organization: n. The state of being or the process of becoming organized
References: 97-10-026
Keywords: parse

According to Gerd Weishaar <weishaar@soft.uni-linz.ac.at>:
>I'm searching for a Perl grammar with the purpose to develope an
>analysis tool for perl programs. The yacc-file included in the
>perl5 package is quite tricky and difficult to read.


That's because Perl itself is tricky and difficult to parse.


>[I'd be surprised if anything much simpler than the parser in perl5 could
>correctly parse perl5. -John]


Good call. Some parser decisions depend on such factors as whether
a given package (class) has been defined yet.
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Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com>
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