Re: What's up with token filters (Re: New operators?)

[Fabien <fleutot+lua@...>]

LHF wrote:

 I think that many filters would just need to maintain one (or several) token queues.

Rather than hacking token queues to translate from an arbitrary concrete syntax to another, wouldn't you think that the right level of abstraction is the abstract syntax tree, with some tree manipulation library, and a generic mechanism to plug stuff into the parser during compilation? :)