On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:45:04PM -0700, Louis Santillan wrote:
> There's options. Have you tried Lemon Parser [0] or miniyacc + qbe
> [1][2]? ucpp [3] lexes/parses C-like languages with C pre-processing.
> re2c [4] is a great lexer. Crockford prefers Pratt's Top-Down
> Operator Precedence [5][
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 6:48 AM wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:17:16AM +0100, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> > Well, other people have made that point before: Why use a regex to
> > identify a token when a simple loop will do?
> >
> > So for lexing, usually a simple token parser in C will do the
> So for lexing, usually a simple token parser in C will do the job
> better. And for parsing, you get the problem that yacc will create an
> LALR parser, which is a bottom-up parser. Which may be faster but
> doesn't allow for good error messages on faulty input ("error: expected
> this, that, or
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:17:16AM +0100, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> Well, other people have made that point before: Why use a regex to
> identify a token when a simple loop will do?
>
> So for lexing, usually a simple token parser in C will do the job
> better. And for parsing, you get the problem
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 06:59:38PM +, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am coding a little/simple custom language parser, and I was wondering if
> there
> are "suckless" grade alternatives to flex and bison, anyone? But wait...
>
> That said and as of today, I still don't agree w
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 06:59:38PM +, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am coding a little/simple custom language parser, and I was wondering if
> there
> are "suckless" grade alternatives to flex and bison, anyone? But wait...
>
> That said and as of today, I still don't agree w
Hi,
I am coding a little/simple custom language parser, and I was wondering if there
are "suckless" grade alternatives to flex and bison, anyone? But wait...
That said and as of today, I still don't agree with myself on the usefullness
of lex/yacc in the first place. For instance, I am puzzled by
