On 30 January 2010 01:18, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote: > Liam <liam.ga...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Could someone educate me about what developers normally do when faced >> with having to create a lexer / parser / analyzer, say for clojure? > > For parsing something like Clojure I would probably do it by hand, as > the syntax is regular-enough that it's pretty easy to do. For parsing > anything more complex or if I was trying to match a formally specified > grammar [1] I'd probably use a generator. > > [1] http://python.org/doc/2.5.4/ref/grammar.txt
How about for things like binary network protocols? Would you treat them the same way as e.g. source code for a language? Obviously there's no "code generation", but you still need to parse it. -- Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
