Re: the mutant beast (was Re: Backtracking through the source)

[Simon Cozens]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:42:57PM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> I believe that to do a true port to the JVM (e.g., supporting
> eval($STRING)), we'll need to implement a bootstrapping parser for the
> parser code in Java.

Uhm, and then in every other language we port it to. Are you *sure* that's the
right approach?

> My concern is that the more integrated the lexer, parser and tokenizer are
> integrated, the harder it will be to reimplement in other languages.
 
Why? It's just code. I can't understand why porting one big bit of code is
insurmountably more difficult than porting three slightly smaller bits.

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