From: Yitzhak Mandelbaum <yitzhakm@cs.princeton.edu>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Array.make exception and parser
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:22:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B10C0D95-8462-460C-963D-2EA0B7801941@cs.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=-BMNta45BOL4keRaQ132CXtj9xcM6M8Awws2u@mail.gmail.com>
For one perspective on this issue, you might want to take a look here:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4150
A short answer (among many) to your particular question: it often requires a lot off effort just to discover whether " a recursive descent parser with some
combinators fits perfectly," and many, many grammars do not fit perfectly.
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> P.S.
>
> I don't know if that's your case but so many languages to parse are
> LL(k) for some k. I don't really understand why people insist on using
> yacc like parser generators where a recursive descent parser with some
> combinators fits perfectly, seems nearly as efficient and allow you to
> give more precise syntax errors to your users.
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Yitzhak Mandelbaum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-04 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-04 13:41 Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 14:56 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 14:57 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 14:57 ` Török Edwin
2011-01-04 15:14 ` Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 15:31 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 16:22 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum [this message]
2011-01-04 16:42 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 17:03 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-04 17:04 ` Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 17:22 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 15:38 ` bluestorm
2011-01-04 17:43 ` Jean Krivine
[not found] ` <1125074892.441923.1294163043602.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 17:53 ` Francois Pottier
[not found] ` <1259991756.440008.1294155536392.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 17:45 ` Francois Pottier
2011-01-04 19:30 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 19:52 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-04 20:36 ` Daniel Bünzli
[not found] ` <1263353434.442766.1294169448342.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 20:31 ` Francois Pottier
2011-01-04 20:40 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2011-01-04 21:03 ` Török Edwin
2011-01-05 3:24 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-05 14:12 ` Boris Yakobowski
2011-01-05 21:12 ` Boris Yakobowski
2011-01-05 13:37 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-01-05 13:46 ` Jean Krivine
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