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From: Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>
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Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> Let me mention (again), that we are talking about two different problems
> here. On the hand bugs in the rulebase can be fixed with either syntax.

Agreed.

> On
> the other hand major cleanups/extensions are better done with only a
> single parser.

>From a purely technical point of view it's easier to extend a single parser
than N.  A single parser is the Obviously Correct Approach (tm).

But the problem is that changing to use a single parser is in itself
a revolutionary step, doubly so if the syntax changes at the same time.

Greg.
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