From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T03:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Standard Parser vs. My Object Model for Very Abstract ML

Standard parser-generators like yacc are designed to support the kind
of syntax you see in most programming languages: line-oriented,
balanced delimiters, simple tokens, etc. What you seem to be
describing is almost closer to image analysis (find bounding boxes,
determine containment based on size and location, etc.) than normal
code lexing and parsing.

Basically, if you have a parser for this syntax which works, I'd say
you should stick with it, as the work needed to shoehorn a traditional
parser generator into this role would probably be substantial.

-- 
Lennon
rcoder.net