On Sep 6, 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > > parsing is hard (well, unless your language is LISP). You'll end up > > wasting lot of time on debugging your parser. Worse, if later you'll > > want to extend your grammar, you'll likely realize that too is hard > > in a handwritten parser as you'll have to modify a lot of it. Parser > > generators exist for a reason; they do a tremendous amount of mundane > > work instead of you. I would never write a lexer/parser by hand, > > unless the goal is to amuse myself with exactly that. > > Seconded. >
I agree with you both - fortunately the grammer of the new language isn't that difficult - and therefore should not be too difficult to write a parser for. Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
