On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a lexical scanner generator that: > a) Works well with Lemon? > b) Is also thread-safe (like Lemon)? > > Does Flex work well with Lemon? (I think it is not thread-safe, but it is > very popular and has plenty of examples around, which is also a plus for > me) > > I am trying to learn a little about writing tokenizers/parsers, and thought > a */Lemon combo would be better to learn if I don't have any previous > experience anyway than Flex/Bison. > In my experience, lexical scanner generator programs like Flex are more trouble than they are worth. I find it far easier to write the lexer by hand. And you get a much smaller and faster lexer if you do it that way too. Example hand-written lexer code: http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/1e86210d397?ln=107-378 > > -- > Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build > bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce > bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
