On Apr 15, 12:28 am, Marc Haisenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO not a good idea. You will waste most of the time writing/debugging the > parser instead of the Vim part (plus all the time you need to solve problems > related to the parser and the grammar). Don't reinvent the wheel when there's > one that might suit your need sufficiently well. > > Writing a parser seems not that hard at first, but how many have you written > so far ? It really is not an easy task and that's why yacc/bison is still so > popular despite it having some limitations. > > Plus writing a grammar for C sounds as joyful as driving a glowing steel rod > through your private parts, considering all its ambiguities. > Marc
I agree. In fact I'm not for a new parser either. I wrote an LALR compiler as a course project some years ago. Debugging the grammar is really painful, even for a very limited subset of C. Ambiguity is quite hard to figure out and solve. Regards, Lin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
