I hope we have helped. Even if you do go with just regular expressions, perhaps having a BNF arrow in the quiver will be useful for other things.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:40 AM <les...@dubiel.pl> wrote: > > > If it's a contest of Marpa vs. regular expressions, I'm only surprised >> that it is just 3x. If your grammar parses using regular expressions, >> regular expressions will always be much faster. >> > > Actually this is not only regular expressions -- I've had to built a bunch > of functions that do the same what rules in grammars do -- organize > structured data. > > > > A while ago I wrote a post with a section on "When NOT to use Marpa". >> There were 4 cases and grammars that are regular expressions were the 1st >> one: >> http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2015/08/fast_handy.html >> > > Thanks for hit. I will read this. > > > > > >> ... your grammar that it was part of a larger one... with Marpa is that >> you can extend the grammar much more easily >> > > I am delighted that parsing got that simple with such solutions as your's > Marpa or Perl6 grammars -- yacc and lex always looked avery wild for me. > > > Thank you, greetings from Poland. :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
