Re: Text::Balanced v Parse::RecDescent

[email protected] (Damian Conway) Sun, 08 Dec 2002 08:52:30 +1100
Newsgroups perl.recdescent
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew Savige wrote:

> When the syntax is known to be correct, these little hand-crafted
> regex parsers have great appeal. But what about error detection,
> reporting and recovery? Can that be done nicely with regexen?

In Perl 6, I sincerely hope so.


> Will Parse::RecDescent continue as an important module in
> Perl 6 or will the Perl 6 improvements render it obsolete?

I'm working hard to make sure it's the latter. ;-)

Damian