Let's stop parser Hell

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 07-Jul-12 15:30, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 July 2012 at 10:26:39 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>> I think that Pegged can be heavily optimized in performance, and there
>> are no
>> fundamental issues which would make it inherently slower than LALR or
>> a hand-written D-specific parser.
>
> Hmm... found an interesting article:
> http://www.antlr.org/papers/LL-star-PLDI11.pdf
>
> It describes some disadvantages of Packrat parsing, like problems with
> debugging and error recovery. These are important for DCT, so I'll have
> to perform additional research.

Yup, LL(*) is my favorite so far. As for debugging and error recovery 
they are always a problem.

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Dmitry Olshansky