20 May
2019
20 May
'19
6:49 p.m.
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:29 AM Steven D'Aprano steve@pearwood.info wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 08:55:59AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I am interested in switching CPython's parsing strategy to something else (what exactly remains to be seen)
Are you re-thinking the restriction to LL(1) grammars?
Indeed. I think it served us well for the first 10-15 years, but now it is just a burden.
See a thread I started at Discourse: https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-something-more-p...
And some followup there: https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsing/1550
Note that this is very much speculative.
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