Let's stop parser Hell

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Jul 5 11:53:15 PDT 2012


On 7/5/12 2:38 PM, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 18:33:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> Count me as interested.
>> CTFE needs more correctness & speed though. So to put it blantly - no
>> it's not possible right NOW.
>> BUT it doesn't prevent us from planing and doing a proof of concept.
>> Pegged seems a good starting point even if we end up re-writing it
>> from scratch.
>
> IMO, first priority is to make code generated by Pegged work fast, and
> second priority - make code generation itself fast.

Well I'd say there are things like supporting large, realistic grammars 
without blowing up or taking long compilation times is the first priority.

Andrei


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