On Jul 23, 5:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns) wrote: > Wolfgang Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >few of James Gimple's snippets from "Algorithms in SNOBOL4" > >(->http://www.snobol4.org/) as an exercise using that library might help > >to get a better appreciation. Perhaps I'll try, eventually ... > > I never noticed them or the PDF of the book there before. Some Friday > afternoon reading for sure. > > Personally I hope to get more to time to look at a combination of Lua and > PEGs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar) for my parsing > needs. > > Eddie
If you get a chance to look at pyparsing, I'd be interested in your comments. The PEG page and the SNOBOL implementation have many similar concepts with pyparsing (or is it the other way around?). -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
