Let's stop parser Hell

[Tobias Pankrath]

> The problem is that say LL(*) can be easily tweaked in place to 
> run various semantic actions as it parse the source. I think 
> GLR is harder to make do anything other then "parse & say it's 
> fine".

Did you look at Elkhound? According to the tutorial you can use 
actions
in the same way as if you were using an (LA)LR parser. Dunno if 
it's sufficient, but with Elkhound an C++-Parser has been written.

See also 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/428892/what-parser-generator-do-you-recommend 
where Ira Baxter (maybe you know him) makes a case for DMS, which 
uses GLR internally. Here is a google tech talk of Ira explaining 
the DMS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA .

I'm not very experienced with parser generators. Just trying to 
put all options on the table.