I've just noticed that issue myself. Is there any progress on it? 


On 7 November 2013 18:02, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Is it at all possible to change the grammar this way?
>> You'd probably have to use a trick similar to the " @ " used on the
>> space between the method name and the multiple-args.
> Ah, okay. Sounds not very efficient, performance-wise.

Could be.  Every trick we add to the tokenizer is a potential
performance problem, indeed.  On the contrary, code in the
rules-function is generally not performance sensitive.


        Stefan