On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:29 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@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-powerful-than-ll-1/379 And some followup there: https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsing/1550 Note that this is very much speculative. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him/his **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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