[Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-04 Thread Derek Gottfrid
i am looking for a parse generator for c#. i looked at jay but it is not much to my liking - anybody used antlr w/ c# option? other options? preferably of the open source variety. anybody working on writing / port something that is self hosting in c#? derek _

Re: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-05 Thread Stefan Matthias Aust
Derek Gottfrid wrote: i am looking for a parse generator for c#. i looked at jay but it is not much to my liking - anybody used antlr w/ c# option? other options? According to www.antlr.org, that unspeakable program also supports C#. Coco/R is another tiny LL(k) parser generator which also sup

Re: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-05 Thread Stefan Matthias Aust
I just found another compiler-compiler: According to this -> http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet/msg00024.html, an UK professor ported the tools from Appel's well known compiler construction book from Java to C#. The zip mentioned on the page contains a 700k textbook (unfortunately in

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Stopford
Hi, Just a thought but I was wondering what folk thought of running a nightly build for Mono. This would depend on resources but I am impressed by the way Mozilla has nightly builds of its CVS tree so if you are having problems accessing CVS, building source or you are tracking a bug/change then

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Kunle Odutola
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan Matthias > Aust > Sent: 05 February 2003 08:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] parse generator > > > Derek Gottfrid wrote: > > > i

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Kunle Odutola
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Gottfrid > Sent: 05 February 2003 01:44 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mono-list] parse generator > > > > > i am looking for a parse generator for c#. i l

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Jonathan Pryor
> Out of interest, why do you prefer LR(k) parsers over LL(k) parsers? > > Kunle Yay! A question I can use my compiler class for! To quote from the "Dragon" book ("Compilers: Principals, Techniques, and Tools" by Aho, Sethi, Ullman, 1988), page 221: There is a significant difference b

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Kunle Odutola
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan Matthias > Aust > Sent: 05 February 2003 08:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] parse generator > > > Derek Gottfrid wrote: > > > i

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Kunle Odutola
> > > Out of interest, why do you prefer LR(k) parsers over LL(k) parsers? > > > > Kunle > > Yay! A question I can use my compiler class for! > > To quote from the "Dragon" book ("Compilers: Principals, Techniques, and > Tools" by Aho, Sethi, Ullman, 1988), page 221: > > There is a signifi

RE: [Mono-list] parse generator

2003-02-09 Thread Jonathan Pryor
> I understand the Dragon books point about LR grammars vs LL grammars. I made > a reference to it in an earlier message. Sorry. I had missed that reference. > > To put it another way, an LR parser works by following the *reverse* of > > a right-recursive derivation. This allows each input to