Maybe a name such as Parse::Perl::Guessy or Parse::Perl::Naive or Parse::Perl::Approx or Parse::Perl::Ish or something would be appropriate for your module Adam?

Randal is obviously right that you aren't really parsing Perl without getting everything right in a deterministic fashion. I don't think it'd be good to use up the Parse::Perl name for something that isn't doing this (especially if Damian is on the way to writing something that does).

But I'd certainly like to see a module that makes a decent job of parsing much Perl, for things like syntax highlighting, even if the scope is limited and it can be tricked.

For example, I always put spaces around arithmetic operators. I'd be happy enough for a parser to assume that a “ / ” is always divide, and know that if I ever want a space at the start of a regexp I should use “m/ ” or “/\s” or something.

Smylers

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