"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> As an aside, I think there *has* to be a legacy parser (as I believe clipka
> suggested). There is just too much useful stuff that will break, and users who
> will either stick to pre-4.0 versions or stop using POV completely.

Actually, I'm currently pondering the possibility of what would be a more
formalized variant of the current SDL, in an attempt to remove its
inconsistencies while making it a rather easy task to port existing code to the
new version.

It would probably be an easy thing to modify the existing SDL parser *now* to
accept both variants of the language for now side by side, throwing a warning
e.g. per file if it finds old syntax, allowing for a rather smooth transition;
if that new syntax was introduced anytime soon *now*, maybe the old style would
be "obsolete enough" to drop support with POV 4 - which would then allow to
downsize the parser a good deal.

I'll post on this idea soon.

Just for starters: The main difference would probably be a significant increase
in the number of semicolons used.

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