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authorDave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>2004-07-31 16:21:50 +0000
committerDave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>2004-07-31 16:21:50 +0000
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downloadperl-166f8a29442475f7fe0e9216f957512a793bc4ed.tar.gz
Add comment to the top of most .c files explaining their purpose
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23176
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* All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.'
*/
+/* This file holds the grammar for the Perl language. If edited, you need
+ * to run regen_perly.pl, which re-creates the files perly.h, perly.tab
+ * and perly.act which are derived from this.
+ *
+ * The main job of of this grammar is to call the various newFOO()
+ * functions in op.c to build a syntax tree of OP structs.
+ * It relies in the lexer in toke.c to do the tokenizing.
+ */
+
/* Make the parser re-entrant. */
%pure_parser