On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 17:17:53 UTC, Cliff wrote:
What has steered you down the path of writing your own parser generator as opposed to using an existing one such as ANTLR? Were there properties you wanted that it didn't have, or performance, or...?
Like I said in the introducing post, this is a personal experiment of sorts. I am aware of most alternatives, such as ANTLR's ALL(*) and many, MANY others. :) And I would never write something myself as a part of my full-time job.
But right now I am writing an article on generalized parsers, toying with implementations I could lay my hands on, implementing others. GLL is a rather exotic LL flavor which looks attractive in theory. I want to see it in practice.
