From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-08-24T03:19:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl Exegesis 5 (good ideas for Ruby to consider?)

In article <F249FbCUalRlUwViKaZ000117d8@hotmail.com>,
Mike Wilson <wmwilson01@hotmail.com> wrote:
>You can find the Perl Exegesis 5 here: 
>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/22/exegesis5.html
>
>Anyone else get more and more glad that Ruby exists every time they see a 
>new Perl Exegesis?

;-)

Actually, there are some pretty cool things in this particular exegesis.
Check it out.  I just skimmed it, but it seems like they're making regex's 
more object oriented for one.  Also, they're adding the ability to define 
grammars (looks like a new grammar keyword has been added) with rules and 
patterns.  This will be a great language for parsing other languages. 

I would encourage the Ruby community to take a look at this and see what we 
can borrow as there seems to be some good ideas there.  They've recognized 
the limitations of regex's for parsing certain types of languages.  I'm 
not sure we need to change our language to incorporate these ideas (as the 
Perl folks seem to be doing) perhaps a seperate standard module would do the 
job for us.

Phil