On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:00:32PM -0800, Evan Gates wrote: > I saw in sbase's TODO that expr had been imported from OpenBSD and > needed "replacing or cleaning up." I decided to give it a try with > yacc. It turned out very different from what I expected due to the > need to convert between strings and numbers. It's about 3.5x smaller > than the existing implementation. I'd like feedback, particularly on > whether or not the use of yacc is suckless here. If you like the > implementation I'd be happy to finish cleaning it up and change it to > sbase style. > > I've attached it to the email and provided a link[0].
I am personally not opposed to using yacc. Yeah I like hand-rolled recursive descent parsers are cool but yacc is a standard tool that most people are familiar with. Roberto, what do you think?
