Scripsit Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote
>> In this particular case, the modifications consist of changing the >> output language from C to something else. That sounds fairly major; >> the entire parsing engine would have been hand-translated to the new >> language. > It's probably not that hard. I wasn't saying it was hard. "Major" is an orthogonal dimension. > The manner in which a yacc-generated parser operates is not obvious > to somebody who does not understand it, but it really isn't > complicated. That doesn't prevent replacing it (and the various constant-generating parts of the generator proper) from being a relatively major change to the parser generator. -- Henning Makholm "Han råber og skriger, vakler ud på kørebanen og ind på fortorvet igen, hæver knytnæven mod en bil, hilser overmådigt venligt på en mor med barn, bryder ud i sang og stiller sig til sidst op og pisser i en port."