Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Wolf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >

> > Please provide support for lexical scanner generators like ANTLR
> > (http://www.antlr.org) or Flex (http://flex.sourceforge.net) by providing a
> > grammar definition for them!
>
> Unfortunately scanner and parser generators are highly inefficient to
> maintain when it comes to non-trivial languages. That is why i.e. gcc
> nowadays has a hand-written parser implementation.
>
>  Thorsten

Right. Perhaps its is a chance for us that the new grammar is intended to be
simple (which does not mean 'limited'). However, if it apears that
ready-made lexical scanner generators are not OK for our purpose, writing a
hand-made one will not be very difficult to specialists. I hope ....

Bruno

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