| From: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Perl 5.12 complains about ecpg parser-hacking scripts |
| Date: | 2011-01-23 11:11:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20110123111138.GA18922@feivel.credativ.lan |
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:40:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I think these really need to be rewritten from scratch. They look
> like they were written by someone who never heard of Perl 5 (it's
> only about 16 years old).
You might remember that we had this discussion before. The script was written
in awk and then translated to perl by a2p. We knew that this code was less than
optimal, but at least it works.
As I already said when the script was introduced, I would love to have a real
perl solution, but I'm not a perl programmer by any means.
Michael
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