Recently mdupont and I were discussing prepositional logic (n-triples in perl) and more to the point writing perl code that would accept (meaning parse as valid perl) statements that look like 
The Foo is Happy

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or similar type stuff.

So I whipped together some code that would accept a statement like the {foo} is "happy". Heres what I did 

use Data::Dumper;

package rule;
                    sub name  {my $self=shift; $self->[0]=shift if @_;
+ $self->[0] };
                    sub value {my $self=shift; $self->[1]=shift if @_;
+ $self->[1] };
package the;        use overload '""'=>sub{Data::Dumper::Dumper shift}
+;
package main;

sub the(&$) {
        my ($item,$rule)=@_;
        return bless {item=>&$item,rules=>{$rule->name=>$rule->value}}
+,"the"
                unless UNIVERSAL::isa($item,"the");
        $item->{rules}->{$rule->name}=$rule->value;
        return &$item
}
sub is($) {
        return bless [is=>shift],'rule';
}


print the {foo} is 'happy' or die die die;

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Yes, I didnt use strictures or warnings. And I did format it funny deliberately (rule the main!)

Anyway, just thought that some of you might find this interesting and also I was curious what ideas other monks might come up with.

Yves / DeMerphq
---
Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

In reply to The {foo} is "happy" by demerphq

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