Re: parser hacking: conditional fields

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Sven Olsen <sven2718@gmail.com> writes:
>> Patches are frustrating things to apply, since they are necessarily
>> highly version dependent and they often don't compose - the chances
>> of two lexer patches conflicting are quite high.
>
> This is the main reason I'm still hesitating to post any of my
> various hacks on the power patch page.  I'm convinced that, if
> you're going to use exactly one syntax mod, the one to pick is
> Peter's table unpack patch.  Any of my mods really ought to be your
> second patch, at best, meaning that a 5.2 diff file is going to be
> less than ideal.

Do your changes actually conflict with Peter's?  Patch files very
often don't conflict at all (which is one of the big reasons they're
so popular), and there's no obvious sign that they _would_ conflict
(they're not both lexer patches, for instance)...

-miles

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