Hi people! Dibyendu, writing your own parser (and lexer, I guess) is a nice training and experience. I would recommend you to use Test-Driven Development.
Angel "Java" Lopez http://www.ajlopez.com http://twitter.com/ajlopez On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Randall R Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday September 6 2010, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: > > 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. > > Famous last words... > > Good luck. > > > > Regards > > > RRS > > -- > 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]<jvm-languages%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en. > > -- 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.
