Pascal front-end integration

Marcin Dalecki martin@dalecki.de
Wed Mar 2 04:34:00 GMT 2005


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.



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