Writing a language parser in D

[Justin Johansson]

Hi downs,

Thanks for the offer but since YACC is my prior background I'll probably go to the closest tool which is the modern variant for LL(1).  Still if you have a small sample to share I'm sure other D people will be delighted.

<JJ/>

downs Wrote:

> Justin Johansson wrote:
> > Can D people please recommend suitable tools for generating a parser (in D) for an LL(1) grammar.  There's bound to be much better parser generator tools available nowadays, since my last foray into this area 10+ years ago with YACC.  I've heard of tools like bison, SableCC etc but apart from the names know nothing about them.
> > 
> > (Note.  This question is not about writing a parser for D.  It is about writing a parser in D for another language which has an LL(1) grammar).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for all help.
> > 
> > -- Justin Johansson
> > 
> 
> In a completely different vein, tools.rd is a simplicistic recursive descent parser framework implemented at compiletime that I've used for most/all of my toy languages. It keeps things trivial - there's no lexing stage, it parses straight from input string. It's not that well documented, but if you want, give me a simple language description and I can write you a sample parser. It's probably the easiest to use though - just mix it in from D code :)