"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ia1ps7$1fq...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> http://www.semitwist.com/goldiedocs/current/Docs/APIOver/StatVsDyn/ > > One question I have is how does it compare with Spirit? That would be its > main counterpart in the C++ space.
Can't say I'm really familiar with Spirit. From a brief lookover, these are my impresions of the differences: Spirit: Grammar is embedded into your source code as actual C++ code. Goldie: Grammar is defined in a domain-specfic language. But either one could probably have a wrapper to work the other way. Spirit: Uses (abuses?) operator overloading (Although, apperently SpiritD doesn't inherit Spirit's operator overloading: http://www.sstk.co.uk/spiritd.php ) Goldie: Operator overloading isn't really applicable, because of using a DSL. As they stand, Spirit seems like it could be pretty handly for simple, quick little DSLs, ex, things for which Goldie might seem like overkill. But Goldie's interface could probably be improved to compete pretty well in those cases. OTOH, Goldie's approach (being based on GOLD) has a deliberate separation between grammar and parsing, which has it's own benefits; for instance, grammar definitions can be re-used for any purpose.
