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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Marpa, prototype of a Hacker's Parser for Perl
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:54:40 GMT
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- Jeffrey Kegler writes
-
- >This interface didn't come out very "perl-ish", and that may be due to
- >my habits of thought. I would like an interface that seemed more
- >"perl-ish".
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- Perl-ish!
- Perlish?
-
- I think the adjectival form should be pearlescent
-
- perl es cent \,per-'les-ent\ adj
- (1936)
- :having a perly luster. e.g. "a perlescent lacquer"
- perl es cence \-en(t)s\ n
-
- (With apolgies to Mr. Webster...)
-