Official D Grammar

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 17:44 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
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> To be honest, that's one of the reasons that put me off working with 
> ANLTR. It seems easy to create a parser with ANTLR, but to create an 
> efficient, well-behaved parser it looks quite complicated, in the sense 
> that you can't abstract yourself from what is happening under the 
> hood... you have to read a lot of theory and documention to learn the 
> innards of ANTLR, and understand what kind of code it's actually 
> generating, and how it processes input. (at moments it feels like you 
> have to take a degree to learn how to use it effectively...)

The Groovy parser is an ANTLR 2.7.7 grammar, it works well and quickly.
I think the trick is to work with the LL(k) idioms and avoid letting
LALR(1) thoughts creep in.

-- 
Russel.
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