parse_text

• The next thing that occurs to me: parse_text is complicated because of C<< a->b >> and such

  • There's a lot of parsing

  • And a delimiter stack in case of A<< foo B<<< c->d >>> bar >>

  • And a lot of special-casery

  • But these complicated cases rarely if ever come up

• The common case is very simple

  • Typically, something like C<caller>

Optimize for the common case.

• Doing this is a rather involved exercise in maintenance programming

  • I love maintenance programming

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