On 14-May-08, at 10:32 PM, Jason Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:07 AM, David Mitchell
> <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think modifying the parser is a pretty big expectation for an
>> application or framework.
>
> Depends on the point of view.  It's the normal order of business in
> some other powerful language I know. :)  But if doing something like
> this is alien to the Smalltalk culture then that is an important
> consideration.

It's not *that* big a deal. Sure, it's not something you do every day,  
but there are quite a few projects in Squeak and other Smalltalks that  
use a custom parser or compiler.

Colin