Re: Recursive Descent Parser

"Fred J. Scipione" <fjscipio@rochester.rr.com>
23 Feb 2000 14:09:50 -0500

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From: "Fred J. Scipione" <fjscipio@rochester.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Feb 2000 14:09:50 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 00-01-027 00-01-032 00-02-034 00-02-058 00-02-111 00-02-115
Keywords: parse

Paul Groves wrote in message 00-02-115...
....<snip>...
>Mind you, stepwise refinement via recursive descent is only really
>'nice' when you can use nested procedures/functions ala Pascal.
>
>And I agree with Stroustrup (which is nice :-) ), if you're writing a
>langauge as an exeriment - hand writing the parser is the only way to
>go.


What about a semi-automated approach, such as using the RDP
package by Adrian Johnstone?

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