From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T04:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: When little languages grow... (long)

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mark Probert wrote:

> Hi ..
>
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 10:33, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
>>
>> I'll probably stay with the pure ruby one, but I'll certainly look
>> at this.  I suspect that the 1 might be the problem for what I'm
>> trying to do. I can't remember how LL differs from LR now, but I'll
>> find that pretty easily.
>>
> If you are starting from scratch, then LL(1) usually isn't a problem.  If you
> can define the grammar in well formed BNF, then LL(1) will be fine.  The real
> problem comes with feature creep and making sure that you don't hose your
> grammar too much ;-)

Yes.  Just adding material types seems unsurmountable at the moment.
>
> Regards,
>
         thank you
         Hugh