Re: Q: parser generators for dylan?

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Subject: Re: Q: parser generators for dylan?
From: doug@cotilliongroup.com (Douglas M. Auclair)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Rob Myers <robmyers@mac.com> wrote in message news:<200105151028.GAA07346@life.ai.mit.edu>...
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001 04:45:02 -0400 (EDT), "Roland Paterson-Jones"
> > <rolandpj@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Are there any parser generators for dylan? It seems to me that you 
> >> could
> >> implement a simple top-down parser generator purely through a few macro
> >> definitions. The d2c parser seems to be generated by a lisp parser
> >> generator(?).
> 
> d2c has parsergen, and lisp2dylan, which operates on the lisp parser 
> generator, IIRC. I don't remember how they relate.
> 
> See Chris Doubles' "Meta" system for a parser implemented using macros.
> 
> This should be a FAQ, whoever's compiling the FAQs. :-)
> 

Check, adding to the FAQ at http://www.geocities.com/dylan_programmer/FAQ.html

Sincerely,
Doug Auclair