From: Chaos Eternal <chaoseternal@shlug.org>
To: "Matt Wette" <matt.wette@gmail.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nyacc version 0.71.0 released
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:34:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGyY8NuoDmHN1Tnz8dqBKK7daOKrCV7DuMDv-k9wh09vzO2Wnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5634AC2-6365-426C-8B2E-3A44909D0CC9@gmail.com>
and, for FFI purpose, I think just CPP output is enough :)
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:12 AM Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 21, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> skribis:
> >
> >> nyacc version 0.71.0 is released as beta
> >>
> >> nyacc is a LALR parser generator written from the ground up in guile
> >>
> >> Features/Updates:
> >> * clean scheme-flavored syntax for grammar specification
> >> * prototype parsers for C99,(partial) javascript, matlab that output
> parse trees in a SXML format
> >> * update: C99 preprocessor updated to expand defines in C code
> >> * update: cleaned up file structure
> >> * update: started working on test-suite
> >> * update: added grammar for C++
> >
> > Very impressive!
> >
> > Side note: it would be nice if there were a tiny configure.ac and
> > Makefile.am to simplify build and installation. :-)
>
> Thanks. Getting C++ and Javascript fully working is going to be a lot of
> work: C++ needs backtracking and Javascript needs “pruning”. But the C99
> parser is mature enough to provide some value, I think.
>
> Regarding using autoconf, I was hoping to minimize overhead code. If the
> lone Makefiles are not cutting it I can work to blend in autoconf.
>
> Irrelevant side note: Years ago I developed a tool like automake, called
> metamake, that provided macros, implemented in M4, to expand “makefile.mm"
> into “makefile". To this day automake just seems to me like the wrong way
> to do that job.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 20:49 NYACC version 0.70.0 released Matt Wette
2016-04-15 1:47 ` nyacc version 0.71.0 released Matt Wette
2016-06-21 12:21 ` Chaos Eternal
2016-06-21 12:55 ` Matt Wette
2016-06-21 13:21 ` Matt Wette
2016-06-21 14:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-21 18:12 ` Matt Wette
2016-06-22 7:34 ` Chaos Eternal [this message]
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