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Re^3: Perl not BNF-able??by dave_the_m (Monsignor) |
on Jul 01, 2005 at 12:30 UTC ( [id://471685]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
A little warning. The yacc parser config in perl (perly.y) is 763 lines long, while the lexer (toke.c) is 10998 lines long. That should be a clue as to how much special-case code perl needs that the parser can't handle itself.
Dave.
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