On 5 Jun 2011, at 18:22, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: > >> I've just completed firming up the API and documentation for CoreParse. >> CoreParse provides a powerful tokenisation and parsing engine, which uses >> shift-reduce parsing (unlike ParseKit) to support a wide range of context >> free grammars. >> >> Parsers can be built quickly and easily using BNF like syntax. > > Cool! What advantages does this have over using a more-established tool like > ANTLR? (“An Objective-C API” is an obvious answer, I suppose, but it doesn’t > look that difficult to call into ANTLR-generated C++ code from Obj-C.)
I've not investigated ANTLR, but you're right, my primary goal was a nice, clean, cocoa-like API in pure Obj-C only API. The only comparable API that I know of is ParseKit which uses recursive decent, and hence doesn't support a lot of grammars. By comparison there, I support SLR, LR(1) and LALR(1), so there's rather more coverage. I'd really appreciate you taking a look and reporting back if you find any interesting things that ANTLR or other tools does better. Thanks Bob _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
