On 11/10/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)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