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#1207 Lexer for Perl 6

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nobody
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2020-03-03
2018-01-14
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Hello,

Do you have any plans to create a Perl 6 lexer?

Thanks.

Related

Feature Requests: #1328

Discussion

  • Kein-Hong Man

    Kein-Hong Man - 2018-01-14

    As far as I can tell, nobody I know is working on a Perl 6 lexer. (I did a lot of the more recent Perl 5 updates.) I don't have any plans to write a Perl 6 lexer. It may be easier for a current Perl 6 user to contribute a lexer (okay, that's easier said than done, but anyway) rather than a non-user. It's kinda difficult for a non-user to code the lexer (taking many hours doing that) and not be using it.

    So, realistically we will probably need a contributor that's either (1) a Perl 6 user who can invest the time to do it, or (2) a corporate user of Scintilla who is willing to do it. Any good ideas?

     
  • Kein-Hong Man

    Kein-Hong Man - 2018-01-14

    Thanks, it's worth a shot. The more noise the better. Let's see what happens.

    At one point a few years ago, I was casually watching the Padre people. But as with these things, sustaining projects is difficult, often the effort could not be sustained and the thing peters out. I have been neglecting to check the last couple of Perl 5 stables (for updating Scintilla) myself... TODO list starting to look ugly.

     
  • Neil Hodgson

    Neil Hodgson - 2020-03-03
    • labels: --> lexer, raku, perl, scintilla, lexilla
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Neil Hodgson

    Neil Hodgson - 2020-03-03

    A 'raku' lexer (SCLEX_RAKU) was added to 4.3.0 with [feature-requests:#1328].

     

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    Feature Requests: #1328

  • Neil Hodgson

    Neil Hodgson - 2020-03-03
    • Group: Completed --> Committed
     
  • Neil Hodgson

    Neil Hodgson - 2020-03-03

    A 'raku' lexer (SCLEX_RAKU) was added to 4.3.0 with [feature-requests:#1328].

     

    Related

    Feature Requests: #1328


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