Re: Wanted: advice on writing compiler in Perl!

trulsson@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
21 May 1996 16:14:03 -0400

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From: trulsson@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.compilers
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.compilers
Date: 21 May 1996 16:14:03 -0400
Organization: Uppsala Universitet
References: 96-05-099 96-05-110
Keywords: parse

Brian N. Miller <bnm@indica.bbt.com> wrote:
> Perl has some very helpful features for compiler writing:
> [regular expressions, hash tables, lists, and file I/O]
> But I couldn't find any ready-to-use general parsing toolkits for
> perl. And I'm not happy with the quality of perl debuggers.


There exists a version of Berkely Yacc v1.8.2 that can emit
Perl code as well as C code so you can use normal yacc code
for parsing. And since Perl is very good at regular expressions
you don't really need lex.


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