D Parsing (again)/ D grammar

[Cliff via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 17:43:45 UTC, Vladimir Kazanov 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 17:17:53 UTC, Cliff wrote:
>
>>
>> What has steered you down the path of writing your own parser 
>> generator as opposed to using an existing one such as ANTLR?  
>> Were there properties you wanted that it didn't have, or 
>> performance, or...?
>
> Like I said in the introducing post, this is a personal 
> experiment of sorts. I am aware of most alternatives, such as 
> ANTLR's ALL(*) and many, MANY others. :) And I would never 
> write something myself as a part of my full-time job.
>
> But right now I am writing an article on generalized parsers, 
> toying with implementations I could lay my hands on, 
> implementing others. GLL is a rather exotic LL flavor which 
> looks attractive in theory. I want to see it in practice.

Very cool - post the GitHub or equivalent when you get the chance 
(assuming you are sharing).  This is an area of interest for me 
as well.