2013/5/14 JeremyS <jschoffen....@gmail.com>: > Hi Puzzler, > > Instaparse seems to be a wonderful piece of software congrats ! I haven't > had the time to test it yet but > it's on the top of my to do list. > > Cheers > Jeremy. > > PS This is kind of a fan boy message but congratulations really seem to be > in order nonetheless :)
Yeah, even if I don't use any of his projects atm, I'm also becoming a fan boy of Mark. Mark, the combined qualities of the code, the documentation, the communication, is inspiring ! Cheers, -- Laurent > > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:13:52 AM UTC+2, puzzler wrote: >> >> Instaparse is an easy-to-use, feature-rich parser generator for Clojure. >> The big idea behind instaparse is to make it simple to convert grammars to >> parsers without needing to know the idiosyncrasies of LL1, LALR, and other >> esoteric grammar restrictions imposed by most parser generators. >> >> When I announced instaparse a little over a month ago, I imagined that I >> had packed so many features into it, that surely there was nothing more that >> anyone could possibly want. Oh, how naive I was :) . Within a few days, >> there were a half-dozen great enhancement ideas posted on the github site. >> >> Here are the highlights of the new 1.1.0 release: >> >> 1. Support for comments in the grammar. (This was by far the most popular >> request.) >> >> 2. A new front-end for ABNF grammars. ABNF is a syntax popular for >> carefully defining protocols in formal specs. Instaparse's support for ABNF >> means that it is a simple copy-paste exercise to turn these specifications >> into an executable parser. >> >> 3. The ability to convert EBNF and ABNF fragments into Clojure data >> structures that can be easily merged with one another and with data >> structures built by the combinator library. >> >> https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse for full feature list and >> extensive tutorial. >> https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/blob/master/CHANGES.md for a list >> of changes since the last version. >> https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/blob/master/docs/ABNF.md for >> detailed docs about the new ABNF syntax. >> >> It seems that whenever instaparse comes up, there is an outcry from people >> who have a visceral reaction against the notion of building a parser from a >> string specification of a grammar. So I want to be clear up front that >> instaparse supports three input formats that you can freely mix-and-match: >> EBNF strings, ABNF strings, and Clojure data structures. String input is >> particularly handy since most grammars are already written down somewhere in >> one of these two notations, but the data structures are an option if you >> need them. Instaparse also supports two output formats: hiccup and enlive. >> >> This release focused mostly on adding new features; the next version will >> primarily be another round of performance tuning. If you want to follow >> along and help test as I try out new optimization strategies, keep an eye on >> the 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT branch: >> https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/tree/v1.2 >> >> Special thanks to Alex Engelberg who implemented the new ABNF input >> format, and David Powell and Peter Monks who suggested the feature and >> helped test it. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
