Pegged, a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) generator in D

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 11-03-2012 08:22, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:34, Alex Rønne Petersen<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Admittedly I have not heard of PEGs before, so I'm curious: Is this powerful
>> enough to parse a language such as C?
>
> I think so. But you'd have to do add some semantic action to deal with
> typedefs and macros.

Oh, I should have mentioned I only meant the actual language (ignoring 
the preprocessor).

Why do you need semantic actions for typedefs though? Can't you defer 
resolution of types until after parsing?

>
> People parsed Java and Javascript with them. I personnally never used
> Pegged for more than JSON and custom formats, but I intend to try the
> D grammar.

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- Alex