> On 3 Jul 2020, at 23:15, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>
> Which other scanners do people use?
You might ask this question in the Usenet newsgroup comp.compilers.
On Samstag, 4. Juli 2020 08:14:46 CEST Akim Demaille wrote:
> Hi Daniele,
>
> > Le 3 juil. 2020 à 23:15, Daniele Nicolodi a écrit :
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > the historical pairing is using Flex with Bison. However, while Bison is
> > under active development and seems to be a very solid code base
On Jul 3, 2020, at 11:14 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> Hi Daniele,
>
>> Le 3 juil. 2020 à 23:15, Daniele Nicolodi a écrit :
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the historical pairing is using Flex with Bison. However, while Bison is
>> under active development and seems to be a very solid code base, there
>> i
For the scanner and parser I maintain on UNIX and then transport to the
EBCDIC world of the mainframe, I had to write my own scanner, but I can
get by with Bison as long as I don't use character constants in rules
(IBM 360 assembler in rules does work). There were a few other hoops,
such as no
Hi Daniele,
> Which other scanners do people use?
For what it’s worth, we are using a hand-rolled scanner. Seemed just the
fastest way to get rolling and the easiest to maintain.
Also, it allowed us to embed a few hacks directly inside the scanner: E.g. in a
few places our grammar is not actual
