A note on subgrammars in GraphViz2::Marpa

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Savage
GraphViz2::Marpa V 2.00, just released, parses Graphviz's DOT files. Part of the DOT syntax is a HTML-like language. I parse the latter by switching to a tiny grammar, devised by rns, specialized for double-quoted strings nested to arbitrary depth. I simply tweaked it to handle HTML. To do tha

Re: Announce: GraphViz2::Marpa

2014-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
@Ron: Congratulations! Some context for others: Ron is, I believe, Marpa's longest-term serious user. So his family of modules is very important in Marpa's history, and I'm very grateful for his support. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Ron Savage wrote: > This is a big day for me. This releas

Announce: GraphViz2::Marpa

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Savage
This is a big day for me. This release is the last of my modules in which I've worked to replace Marpa::XS with Marpa::R2. I've left the previous release - V 1.13 - on CPAN because GraphViz2::Marpa::PathUtils depends on it. The latter now needs to be re-written. -- You received this message b

Re: nearley parser: any tips?

2014-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
@Ron: No. leo.md is of specialized interest -- it's for the (at present) handful of people who want to re-implement Marpa from scratch. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Ron Savage wrote: > Thanx, but I've linked to about.md. Do you think I should link to leo.md > as well? > > -- > You received

Re: nearley parser: any tips?

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Savage
Thanx, but I've linked to about.md. Do you think I should link to leo.md as well? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googl

Re: nearley parser: any tips?

2014-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
@hardmath123: here are the notes on Leo 1991 I promsied. I not sure they're enough to help programmers past the hurdle of math notation, but they are *something*, anyway. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Ron Savage wrote: > OK >