Parser

[Jacek Wojdel]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> John Zedlewski wrote:
> MY PERSONAL OPINION:
> 
> I don´t like the idea of an external package (which parses ... either
> bison, yacc, etc.) ...
> in the end we should have a parser written in c++. 
> Ok... it´s right using packages like these would simplify the whole
> thing... but only in the first degree.
> I remember only the trouble we always have with external packages,
> "where can I find this library... where do I have to put it", some
> autoconf/automake trouble to implement a non supported language (e.g.
> "lemon") etc.)

But when using bison/yacc, we would have a parser written in c++. The file
generated by bison is a c file that can can be included in a source
distribution. In this way only people who want to change something in the
parser would have to have bison (yacc, flex) installed.
	Jacek

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