Re: Parser Generated vs. Hand Written Parsers

"Martin Filteau" <martin_filteau@yahoo.ca>
28 Sep 2006 22:51:38 -0400

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From: "Martin Filteau" <martin_filteau@yahoo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Sep 2006 22:51:38 -0400
Organization: http://groups.google.com
References: 06-09-138
Keywords: parse, practice, comment
Posted-Date: 28 Sep 2006 22:51:38 EDT

moop wrote:
> Hi,
> PGs have a great convenince over hand written parsers, but they also
> slow in speed and hard to read the generated code. I wonder besides
> these two obvious factors, what else hand written parsers are better
> than PGs? Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Sam Huang


How about better and cleaner error recovery ?


-mf
[Depends on the parser generator. Yacc is about the worst. -John]

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