On Monday September 6 2010, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: > On Sep 6, 2:59 pm, Randall R Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > parsing is hard (well, unless your language is LISP). You'll end > > > up wasting lot of time on debugging your parser. Worse, if later > > > you'll want to extend your grammar, you'll likely realize that > > > too is hard in a handwritten parser as you'll have to modify a > > > lot of it. Parser generators exist for a reason; they do a > > > tremendous amount of mundane work instead of you. I would never > > > write a lexer/parser by hand, unless the goal is to amuse myself > > > with exactly that. > > > > Seconded. > > I agree with you both - fortunately the grammer of the new language > isn't that difficult - and therefore should not be too difficult to > write a parser for.
Famous last words... Good luck. > Regards RRS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
