<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:29 AM Steven D'Aprano <<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 08:55:59AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
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> I am interested in switching CPython's parsing strategy to something else<br>
> (what exactly remains to be seen)<br>
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Are you re-thinking the restriction to LL(1) grammars?<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Indeed. I think it served us well for the first 10-15 years, but now it is just a burden.</div><div><br></div><div>See a thread I started at Discourse:</div><div><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-something-more-powerful-than-ll-1/379">https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-something-more-powerful-than-ll-1/379</a></div><div><br></div><div>And some followup there:</div><div><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsing/1550">https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsing/1550</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note that this is very much speculative. <br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div><div><i style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span>Pronouns</span>: he/him/his </i><a href="http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><i>(why is my <span>pronoun</span> here?)</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>