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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
