Re: Generating a simple hand-coded like recursive descent parser

"Mr.E" <mr.waverlye@verizon.net>
11 Sep 2006 15:52:44 -0400

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From: "Mr.E" <mr.waverlye@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Sep 2006 15:52:44 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-09-02906-09-039 06-09-042
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 11 Sep 2006 15:52:44 EDT

Tommy Thorn wrote:
> Mr.E wrote:
> > From what I've read, many compilers are grown and extended by using
> > their own language, I like that idea.
>
> Using the right language will teach you concepts that makes doing this
> so much easier. At the very minimum you need product (~ "struct") and
> sum (~ "union") types. In (classic) BASIC you'd have to simulate those
> making it a very unnatural and messy implementation.


Not attempting to be an apologist for BASIC but our fathers BASIC is
different from todays BASIC. Different dialects have emerged. Some
havent changed much and others are highly improved. The dialect I use
has records (~structs), unions, functions, pointers and much that is
available to a C programmer.


> PS: Here's a slightly compressed solution in C for the first half.


I will study your example and make good use of it.


Thank you very much for your input.




W.


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