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2181 :: Any parser-generator work in progress?

• pgodman (orginal) [2016-04-05T22:42:12+02:00] view original

  Is anyone currently working on a parser-generator, like textx or xtext? I'm thinking about something like the pegs module but that emits presumably emits some sort of AST. Has anyone spent time thinking about the most useful outcome of a project like that?

  Cheers, Pete

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• flyx (orginal) [2016-04-05T23:56:34+02:00] view original

  I am currently working with ingy (one of the original authors of the YAML specification) on a new version of YAML to fix its current shortcomings. One part of this effort is to have a YAML grammar definition that is able to generate parsers for multiple programming languages, so that YAML parsers will have a common foundation. This grammar will probably be implemented in pegex, so writing a Pegex implementation in Nim will possibly be part of the project. However, we are currently in an early planning phase and this won't arrive any time soon.

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• ephja (orginal) [2016-04-06T22:16:06+02:00] view original

  https://github.com/fowlmouth/glossolalia/

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• andrea (orginal) [2016-04-07T08:49:20+02:00] view original

  Interesting! Is glossolalia documented anywhere? I see there are a few examples in the repo, but a little tutorial would come in handy

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