Third iteration of QMake parser, looking for a parser generator

[Matt Rogers]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Adam Treat wrote:

> On Thursday 05 July 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> Well, I'll see what he'll send me. I do want to have something fast,
>> however I also don't want to sit down for 2 hours trying to  
>> understand
>> the lexer everytime I need to change something... Its not about  
>> Roberto
>> producing code that is unreadable, its just about a state-machine  
>> in C++
>> is not as easy to understand - IMHO (especially with various lookups
>> into tables with just plain numbers) - as some if( regex.match(input)
>> )..
>
> I don't think you'll have any problem understanding it.  He simply  
> looks up
> keywords character by character.  And he groups keywords by word  
> length and
> alphabetical.  I couldn't imagine a faster or clearer approach.
>
> Adam

Aye, it totally rocks. :) Thanks Roberto!
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Matt