Howdy, I haven't used it in production, but you might want to look at HOP::Parser as well:
http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/HOP-Parser-0.02/ Cheers, On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Shlomi Fish<shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi all! > > Which parser generator do you recommend to use for a Perl project. What I've > looked at so far: > > 1. Berkeley Yacc for Perl - works pretty well, but is kinda limited. > > 2. Parse::RecDescent - very impressive feature set, but a little slow, and has > been under-maintained (though it seemed to have improved slightly with several > new releases in 2009). It also tends to be hard to debug its errors. > > 3. Parse::Yapp - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-Yapp/ - I tried to use it > in https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/web-cpan/Text-Qantor/ but it gives me > an error for what appears to be a valid syntax, and for the life of me I > cannot understand why it is. > > 4. There's a new version of GNU bison with support for multiple language > backends. I tried writing a backend for Perl 5, but I gave up on the m4 > hacking (I think that m4 must die!). > > 5. There's also ANTLR - http://www.antlr.org/ : > > http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Code+Generation+Targets says: > > Perl - Early prototyping. Simple lexer is working. > > 6. Can I interact with the Parrot Grammar Engine (PGE)? Any input would be > useful. > > -------------- > > I probably missed many others. Any recommendations would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap > > Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. > -- Jonathan Leto jonat...@leto.net http://leto.net
