Re: [abcusers] ABC parser output data structure.

[Wil Macaulay]

Steven Bennett wrote:
[various things snipped]
Mind you, I agree that C structures are somewhat archaic, but they do the
job.  Ideally the output should be a set of objects, but then you'd lose
cross-language portability.
cross-language portability is IMHO a bit of a red herring. Make the 
datastructures/objects easy to work
with in your target language.   I can say quite honestly that C 
datastructures in memory are of no  use to
me as a Java developer - one reason I use Java is to take advantage of 
garbage collection, which I
would lose with this structure.  But then, one reason I wrote Skink was 
to learn about javacc (parsing
tools) so I wouldn't have used a pre-built parser anyway...

My advice, for what little it's worth, is to build it and publish it, 
and see where you go... 

-->Steve Bennett
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