Re: Looking for Parser Generator in Perl

"Eric A. Anderson" <eanders+@cmu.edu>
Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:01:43 GMT

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From: "Eric A. Anderson" <eanders+@cmu.edu>
Organization: Compilers Central
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:01:43 GMT
Keywords: yacc, FTP
References: 92-09-173

The moderator writes:
> [I'd think it'd be straightforward to modify Berkeley yacc to produce its
> parser in perl rather than C. Yacc used to do ratfor, after all. -John]


Indeed, someone already has:
Package-Name: perl-byacc
Maintainer: corbett@berkeley.edu
Version: 1.8
Obtained: sparky.sterling.com:local-src/perl-byacc1.8.tar.Z
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I found it to be very useful. The only thing missing now is a lexer.
However because of perl's incredible string handling ability, writing
a lexer isn't too bad.
                    -Eric
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