Re: Which lexer do people use?

2020-07-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi Adrian, > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 21:30, Adrian Vogelsgesang a > écrit : > > Also, it allowed us to embed a few hacks directly inside the scanner: E.g. in > a few places our grammar is not actually LR1. Only in very few edge cases, > though, so that we don’t want to use GLR. Hence, our scanner d

Re: Which lexer do people use?

2020-07-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi John, > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 17:02, John P. Hartmann a écrit : > > 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

Re: Which lexer do people use?

2020-07-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi Christian, > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 12:46, Christian Schoenebeck a > écrit : > > On Samstag, 4. Juli 2020 08:14:46 CEST Akim Demaille wrote: > > For me, the exaggerated 'divide and conquer' philosophy applied decades ago > by > splitting scanner and parser was a much more painful decision with