Re: RFC: Extracting the action transformation from the scanner

[Hans Aberg]

On 26 Aug 2005, at 01:54, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > What do you have in your mind here?
>
> Nothing concrete yet.  Perhaps just come up with a minimal macro
> language and implement it in C.  I hate to reinvent the wheel, but M4
> isn't working out well.

Another, more advanced idea, that I have played around with before,  
is to create a minimal, universal computer language, just enough to  
describe the parser. Then that languages is translated to output  
parser in other languages, C, C++, etc. The point would be that each  
parser needs only be written once. But one would have to analyze the  
components used for different computer languages.

This is probably further down the road. The C++ parser development is  
stuck, because the commands for placing code, which is very important  
in C++, have not yet been supplied.

  Hans Aberg