On 11/10/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
The last time this came up (or maybe it was five or ten times ago; I can't keep track) I think I remember Brion stating pretty emphatically that no change to the parser could be contemplated if it broke *any* stuff. And on one level I think I agree: a cavalier change, that might break stuff and take some time to clean up after, is a very different prospect on a project with 100 pages, or even 10,000 pages, than it is on one with 2,000,000 pages.
That's why I'd like input from Brion and/or other "senior developers" on
ideas like a gradual transition from one parser to another. The current grammar has a lot of fat we don't need. Let's trim it.
Steve