D parsing

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Nov 1 23:00:07 PDT 2013


On 11/1/13 9:06 PM, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Bugs stopping Pegged from going forward should receive high priority.
>
> One prerequisite for every PEG-Parser is, that the language has to be
> designed to be without any ambiguity.
>
> This is not the case for D, because of its evolution based on recursive
> descent parsing including tricks.
>
> It is therefore not sufficient to eliminate bugs in Pegged.
>
> -manfred

That would mean Pegged should accommodate tricks. Very few languages 
don't have them.

Andrei




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