From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T09:05:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Generic Parsing Library

Here is an earlier version of what I'm working on:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/227313d6ff2ab1fa/8758532b85f2b001?q=bnf&rnum=2#8758532b85f2b001

Hopefully I'll do another release in a couple of weeks (under
the rubyforge project grammar).

Feature-wise, I think what I'm doing is closest to antlr (for
C++/C#/Java/Python).  But, I believe it will be more powerful
and easier to use since you write the grammar in the target
progamming language (Ruby) and there is no need for a
code-generation phase.

--- Adam Sanderson <netghost@gmail.com> wrote:

> The mention of rockit from above was good too, it looks
> pretty
> compelling.  Here's the project:
>   http://rockit.sourceforge.net/
> It looks pretty interesting.  However rockit, racc, and
> rbison seem to
> be somewhat involved for writing parsers.  I'm thinking of
> something
> much simpler perhaps.  These work great for very common
> syntaxes where
> you have a very large number of documents.  I'm thinking more
> along the
> lines of a flexible library for quickly defining many
> syntaxes with a
> limited set of documents.
> 
> Then again, I might just need to play with these parsers a
> bit and see.
>   .adam sanderson
> 
> 
> 



		
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