I absolutely don't mind. Actually I am extremely happy I got an answer like this. Thank you a ton, it is full of very helpful advices. Particularly I had no idea I can add a closure to the grammar and use it as part of a virtual main package (I did not find it nowhere in the docs).
I have an additional question if you do not mind. Can you decipher this:
line       : ''               # Skip blank lines.
                 <skip:'[ \t]*'>  # Don't treat newlines as whitespace
+.
                 key_value /\n/
                 <skip: $item[2]>
                 { $item[3] }

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for me please? I particularly do not understand the '' construct (it will always match right?) neither do I understand how can you have several tokens in one rule without the | mark (you have '' then a skip pragma then key_value then /\n/ and then another skip pragma)
Once again thanks a lot for the insights!

In reply to Re^2: Parse::RecDescent trouble by ribasushi
in thread Parse::RecDescent trouble by ribasushi

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