D Grammar in BNF Text Form?

Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 6 05:19:16 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Robert Schadek via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 12:29 PM, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
...
>> My purpose is to attempt to write a D language parser in Perl using
>> Damian Conway's Regex::Grammars module (on CPAN).
...
> The site says it creates recursive decent parser. D does not even fit
> into lalr1. So it will not work, unless you can inject handwritten parse
> function for the critical parts

I'm not denying all you say, and I certainly am no expert, but I
believe Dr. Conway's module can handle D with some effort.

Best,

-Tom


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