> Yep, PPI worked

Not sure if you got my point.

PPI is a static parser, this (should?) mean if it sees at "compile" time something like ...

to keep on parsing correctly if it encounters a try {...}

I haven't tested this, but I bet you will need to patch PPI to handle this.°

At least if you want to construct a decent Perl dialect and not just some interesting demos.

I say dialect because it's very hard to achieve full compatibility.

OTOH once your parser and compiler really work, you can try to transpile it into your target languages to bootstrap a stand-alone dialect which is consistent in all those languages.

At least in theory...

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

updates

°) There is a whole bunch of more things happening at compile-time...

In reply to Re^7: I wrote an expression parser for PPI by LanX
in thread I wrote an expression parser for PPI by BerntB

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