On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:36, Jim Seach wrote: > > --- Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:38, Juancarlo A�ez wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Against JavaCC: The parser cannot be modified without JavaCC, a > > closed-source package. Developers need the package and knowledge > > about it to modify the parser. If JavaCC goes away, the parser would > > be pure Java and undertandable and modifyiable by all. > > > > There are ant task to make dealing with JavaCC, and if you really > > want a > > fun task I'll work with you on making an open source JavaCC clone :-) > > Now that would be fun! > > Why not use Antlr (http://www.antlr.org)? It is public domain and uses > an LL(k) grammar for both lexing and parsing, which allows for more > powerful lexers than those based on regular expressions.
I never like Antlr grammars, I personally just found JavaCC made more sense to me and it's what I started with because Antlr didn't, and still doesn't as far as I know, handle unicode properly and the Velocity parser needed to deal with unicode properly. I've been using JavaCC every since. > Jim Seach > > > > > > Juanco > > > -- > > > Ing. Juancarlo A�ez > > > Modelistica > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.modelistica.com > > > telef: (412) 222-1160 > > > (212) 761-5432 > > > --- > > -- > > jvz. > > > > Jason van Zyl > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://tambora.zenplex.org > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
