[Edinburgh-pm] Marpa::HTML

Miles Gould miles at assyrian.org.uk
Mon May 23 04:55:39 PDT 2011


On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Hakim Cassimally
<hakim.cassimally at gmail.com> wrote:
> With P::RD, I'd get totally lost in how many layers of array-refs each rule had
> wrapped its output in, and without a lightweight way of determining types,
> everything ended up in a mess of hashrefs (my fault, I suppose, for
> not declaring
> OO classes for it).

Actually, yeah, that sounds familiar :-)

> That plus the whole "declare a DSL in a string" thing totally put me off PRD

I wrote a (not very good) parser combinator library in Python once - I
wonder how well that would work in Perl? About equally well, I'd
expect.

> (though I still think the *docs* for the module are a truly impressive piece of
> technical writing).

Agreed!

Miles


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