Re: Looking for Perl Grammar

Khamis Abuelkomboz wrote:

I'm writing a Perl parser and I'm looking for a pure perl grammar. 

You won't find it.

My favorite example is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
print time / 2 ; #/;  die  'This die() is not executed';
print cos  / 2 ; #/;  warn 'But this warn() is!';

To resolve the ambiguity of / as numerator/denominator versus m//
requires knowledge of which functions require arguments and which
do not.  And if the program has 'use Module;', to determine which
user-defined functions take arguments and which do not requires
actually parsing the Module.  You can't do that with pure grammar.
	-Joe
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