in reply to Re: But perl is not guessing!
in thread Appropriate CPAN namespace for perl parser

Just addressing this one point:
Is it EVER possible to write a proper and full perl parser without using perl itself... The B modules demonstrate this.
The B modules are using "perl itself" to do the parsing. That's why they can get it right.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Re: But perl is not guessing!
by adamk (Chaplain) on Feb 13, 2002 at 13:48 UTC
    That was my point.

    Can you reconstruct the original source code from a B construct though?
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