Re: Parse::FastDescent

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, [email protected] wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> 
>> is there a plan for P::FD at the moment?  After Apocalypse 5, I'm
>> very curious how P::FD will use the new Perl 6 regex engine.
> 
> It probably won't. The new regex engine will render P::FD redundant.

I'm all for that.  I had previously imagined that P::FD would add
functionality to Perl 6, but after A5 and the ensuing discussions I
see how the new plan makes sense, and how P::RD factored into the Perl
6 regex engine and parser design.  The speed-up from moving parsing
functionality into the core should be impressive.

> What I'm thinking post-A5 is that the Perl 5 P::FD may be called
> Perl6::Regexes instead, and simply implement the A5 design (with
> some custom extensions of my own).

It wouldn't be a Damian module without custom extensions :)

I guess the best thing for now is to wait for the Perl 6 regex engine
to come into being in some form.  The TODO items look appetizing,
especially left-recursion and superpositional parsing.

Thanks for the info
Ted