On Monday September 6 2010, Per Bothner wrote: > On 09/06/2010 06:49 AM, Attila Szegedi 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. > > As an old curmudgeon, I still prefer a hard-written recursive-descent > parser.
In that case, I'd go with a combinator parser approach such as Scala's combinator parser library. (Now with Packrat Parsing!) > ... > -- > --Per Bothner Randall Schulz -- 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.
