Formal Grammar?

[Michel Fortin]

[Sorry, I sent this email by accident while I was writing it. So  
please ignore the previous message.]

Le 9 juil. 2006 à 3:01, A. Pagaltzis a écrit :


> If you need to write it in C, be sure not to miss D. Richard

> Hipp’s [lemon][1] parser generator.

>

> [1]: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/


Not sure if anyone seen that, but [Eric Anderton's compile-time  
regular expression parser][2] made of D templates looks very  
promising, but is possibly lacking some things needed for a straight  
port of Markdown in D. But I suspect that could produce a blazing  
fast Markdown implementation as it is often about as fast as C++.  
There is an introduction in the middle of [this article][3].

  [2]: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/browser/trunk/meta/regexp2.d
  [3]: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/templates-revisited.html


>> Would anyone be interested in contributing to this effort?

>

> I can’t make any promises, but I’ve always wanted an actual

> parser rather than all the search&replace-train implementations

> that we currently have, so by the looks of it I was going to have

> to write one eventually anyway.


I can surely review it at the very least.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/