OT: Ultimate Language Syntax Cleanness Comparison

[holger krekel]

Jeremy Fincher wrote:
> holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1044658940.11235.python-list at python.org>...
> > I was actually quite surprised to find out (together with a perl-friend)
> > that there is no easy way to parse perl. All the methods involve 
> > evaluating/executing it at the same time.  Cool, isn't it.
> 
> That's not true.  Perl *is* compiled to a bytecode format (what do you
> think all the jazz about Parrot is for?)  There's no easy way to lex
> Perl separate from parsing it.  Lexing and parsing Perl code is one in
> the same.  Evaluating it is entirely separate.

please show me the snippet how to parse a perl snippet without evaluating it. 
I am really interested and we even posted to the perl-porters list at
the time.   

Until shown the snippet i don't believe it.

    holger