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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: deng@randomsample.de, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	raeburn@raeburn.org, eric@siege-engine.com,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CEDET merge question
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914112203.GA2231@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Mms76-0007X2-2S@fencepost.gnu.org>

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:39:44PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> What is Lpeg, and what does it do?

PEG stands for "Parsing Expression Grammars" and it is a grammar
notation which basically represents formally a recursive descent parser.

They are said to be a bit more powerful than context free grammars and
(usually) more expressive. The most salient point for us "old-timers"
is probably that the choices are "ordered" -- this has some price, but
we get someething for that: the distinction between lexer and parser
becomes more flexible. The relevant paper seems to be [1].

It seems that they are very nice to bind to a languag.

LPEG is the implementation of PEGs to be used in Lua.

[1] <http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/popl04/peg-popl04.pdf>

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-05 16:28 CEDET merge question Chong Yidong
2009-09-05 17:22 ` David Engster
2009-09-05 20:53   ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-05 23:08     ` David Engster
2009-09-06 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-06 17:46   ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-06 21:11     ` David Engster
2009-09-06 22:26       ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-07 13:33       ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-12 12:49         ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-12 13:37           ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 16:39             ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 11:22               ` tomas [this message]
2009-09-14 12:15                 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-14 20:04                   ` tomas
2009-09-12 16:34           ` David Engster
2009-09-13 16:39           ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 17:38             ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-14 18:28               ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-13 16:40           ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-07 13:34     ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-08  8:11 ` joakim
2009-09-08  9:07   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-08  9:09     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-08 14:41   ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-08 15:10     ` joakim
2009-09-08 17:18       ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-08 21:21     ` Romain Francoise
2009-09-08 22:27       ` Chong Yidong

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