The syntax seems fairly nice and more like 'standard' OO

One problem I see with this sort of thing, though, is that without completely parsing the whole filtered source file there are ways in which to confuse it. I had a quick look at the source code and it seems that if you were to put some of the things which the filter is replacing (eg the sub declerations) inside a quoted string they would still be replaced even though they clearly shouldn't. I know this is not likely to happen normally, but it would be a nasty gotcha if it did.

It all comes down to the difficulty in parsing perl. I did something which involved inventing a bit of new notation for perl once. It worked ok, provided I avoided anything which would confuse it. It suffered this same problem though.


In reply to Re: How about class Foo {...} definition for Perl? by hhdave
in thread How about class Foo {...} definition for Perl? by gmpassos

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