Pegged, a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) generator in D

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Mar 10 23:26:51 PST 2012


On 3/11/12 1:22 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:34, Alex Rønne Petersen<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Admittedly I have not heard of PEGs before, so I'm curious: Is this powerful
>> enough to parse a language such as C?
>
> I think so. But you'd have to do add some semantic action to deal with
> typedefs and macros.
>
> People parsed Java and Javascript with them. I personnally never used
> Pegged for more than JSON and custom formats, but I intend to try the
> D grammar.

Any chance you consider adding AST generator actions as discussed in the 
main forum a while ago?

Andrei


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