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From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@free-expression.org>
Subject: Re: Interested in working on a parser generator
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:26:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F552736.6030707@free-expression.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1061856136.2964.5532.camel@barrayar.local.thibault.org

John Stracke wrote:
> The FSF's help-wanted page says that a parser generator that generates
> Scheme would be a welcome utility, for creating Foo-->Scheme
> translators.  I'd be interested in working on such a project; is anybody
> working on one already?

     I wrote the core of a scanner generator this weekend that I could
donate.  It produces a DFA as a big letrec with tail-recursive functions
for the states.
     Plus it allows you to insert actions with arbitrary scheme code and gives you
access to the fail and success continuations, even after conversion
to a dfa (though it does mean the search is breadth-first instead
of depth-first, so you would have to keep track of things with that
in mind).
     It doesn't have much in the way of error-handling, and contains
some Chezisms (generic ports and record-case).  Also, it only handles
pre-parsed regular expressions.
     Still, I'm pretty stoked about it.  What do I need to do to submit it?

     I also have some macros to convert a (pre-parsed) regular expression
to a big closure that just does backtracking, if that's of any interest.

Lynn




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-02 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26  0:02 Interested in working on a parser generator John Stracke
2003-09-02 23:26 ` Lynn Winebarger [this message]
2003-09-03 23:52   ` Clinton Ebadi
2003-09-12 23:19     ` Rob Browning

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