Re: [gtk-list] A description format for Gtk features

[Rob Browning <rlb cs utexas edu>]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> That's what I know and where I am confident that it can take us
> wherever we want to go today (tm).

But of course :>

> What about Perl?  Can it work with the above syntax?  How would a
> more Perl rendition look like?

Funny you should ask.  I just wrote a *very* small parser last night
in perl for handling a simple scheme-ish syntax (since perl's native
support for data files with any heirarchical structure is not so
good).

I'd be  glad to share it once I clean it up.  It's somewhat primitive,
and right now has to read the entire file into RAM to parse it, but
for most files that's not a problem.

It handles lists of strings, other lists, and numbers, and translates
them to perl references to lists of strings, references to other
lists, and numbers.

-- 
Rob