Re: Diplodicus: A parser with infinite tokens of lookahead

  M.G.J. van den Brand wrote:
> I would advice you to have a look at this SDF parsing technology, see
> http://www.cwi.nl/projects/MetaEnv/ for more information on this
> technology.


I have taken a look at your SDF parsing technology, since I was
interested in comparing this to LALR(1) style parsing. To be brutally
honest I find your package next to impossible to build.


I have yet to ever finish before throwing my hands up and walking
away. The latest problem came up when I tried to build asf-library,
and forward.c received a few syntax errors because some part of the
file was not correctly expanded to valid C code.


There are way too many packages (and subpackages) to make this thing
fly. And your website doesn't seem to correctly 'bundle' all the
dependencies recursively so that _only_ one tarball needs to be
downloaded.


Is there some way you can make the build process of MetaEnv more
tractable? Right now the compile instructions look about O(n^3) :) It
looks like pretty interesting stuff (in theory), but it will continue
to remain that way until you make the price of entry less expensive.


Thanks,


-Clint

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