SPARK, developed by John Aycock, precedes PLY by at least a couple of years. I had seen John present work on SPARK at several Python Conferences in the late 90's and thought the introspection approach he used was pretty slick. So, I copied it when I created PLY several years later.
I didn't use SPARK because I wanted something based on LR parsing like traditional yacc (SPARK uses the Earley parsing algorithm which is more powerful, but not as fast). Cheers, Dave On Fri 13/02/09 11:07 AM , eliben [email protected] sent: > > Dave, > > SPARK and PLY seem similarly designed, at least as far as the external > API goes (reflection on t_ tokens and p_ rules). Which was inspired by > which? > > Eli > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ply-hack" group.To post to this group, send email to ply > [email protected] unsubscribe from this group, send email to ply-hack+ > [email protected] more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ply-hack?hl=en-~----------~----~----~----~------~---- ~------~--~--- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ply-hack" 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/ply-hack?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
