On Monday September 6 2010, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: > On Sep 6, 3:49 pm, Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is how Groovy started... no proper grammar and it was a > > freak'en mess to clean up BNF isn't that difficult... in fact it's > > simpler than rolling your own. > > Hi, I am planning to define a proper grammer - started work on it > already. But I don't want to wait until the whole language is defined > before starting to code. So grammer, lexer, parser, compiler will all > evolve side by side if that makes sense.
All the more reason to use a parser generator tool! If you have any intention that this language will be released into the wild, you owe it to those who will take it up after you to put it on a proper foundation. And even if you don't, you owe it to yourself not to waste time and effort on a hand-written parser. > Regards Randall Schulz -- 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.
