Re: Prothon's parser is too naive

"Paul Prescod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I predict that Prothon's parser will evolve to be more and more complex
> over time and it is best to bite the bullet and put in place a more
> advanced architecture right now. I was going to write a treatise on why
> this is so but I'm hoping that I can just point to a presentation I did
> for the Vancouver Python User's Group (any Vancouverites lurking?). It
> describes why Python's two-pass compiler is actually too simple and is
> thus being refactored in the so-called AST branch.

Have you looked at the Prothon compiler?  It is god-awful simple.  Your
change would make it more complex.  Your argument probably makes sense for
Python, but I certainly don't understand it for Prothon.