On 2005-03-02, at 05:20, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:
In fact, I'm somewhat curious what caused folks to jump into the breach with parsers. From reading the lists it seems to be maintainability and stomping out corner case problems for the most part.
Perhaps a parser toolset is emerging that will decouple the front ends from the middle and back ends to a greater degree. I think I will look at the new C/C++ parsers and see what's what.
You know this "shift/reduce conflict" stuff the former parsers where barking at you?
Contrary to C and C++ a LR-grammar parser generator like bison or yacc is a fully adequate
tool for pascal.
