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From Regular Expressions to Parsing JavaScript

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From Regular Expressions to Parsing JavaScript
FOSDEM 2016

We'll start by demystifying Perl 6 regular expressions with some help from Perl5. From there we'll name the blocks that we've captured along the way, and refactor our regular expressions into Perl 6 rules and tokens. Those rules and tokens will combine to form a full Perl 6 grammar, and actions let us generate an abstract syntax tree directly from a bunch of little regular expressions.

Speakers: Jeffrey Goff