Hi, Juancarlo.

it's possible to get a copy of our paper from
http://ialab.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~mizusima/publications/paste513-mizushima.pdf.
Since I'm busy now, I'll reply about the other points later.

2013/3/27 Juancarlo Añez <apal...@gmail.com>

> Hello Kota!
>
>  In this paper, we proposed 'cut' operators as an extension
>> to PEG.  However, its semantics are different from Prolog's 'cut' in the
>> point our 'cut' operators
>> work *lexically* since Prolog-like 'cut semantics break composability of
>> parsing expressions.
>>
>
> Would it be possible to get a copy of that paper?
>
> I don't understand "composability of parsing expressions".
>
> As to the syntactics, the current implementation of "cut" in Grako is
> unlike the one in Prolog, because it just aborts backtracking at certain
> points in the descent parser. Its aim is to report errors against as closer
> to their lexical source , and thus more humanly understandable.
>
> Maybe Grako shouldn't call it "cut"? I don't know!
>
> My need for something to my concept of "cut" was because parsers (out of
> the parser-generators I knew) would report a simple syntactical error
> against the start of a structured ('IF', or 'WHILE' maybe) statement that
> was dozens of lines before.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Juancarlo *Añez*
>



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Kota Mizushima
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