POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Why not generate parser with Bison & Flex?: Re: Why not generate parser with Bison & Flex?

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From: Rudy Velthuis
Date: 18 Feb 1999 07:49:21
Message: <36cc0c51.0@news.povray.org>

Gordon schrieb in Nachricht <36cb9a0e.0@news.povray.org>...
>So, we would still be able to have ALL the flexiblilty in comma use or not?
>
>It would seem to me that the idea is to make the change to the way POVRay
is
>written but in NO WAY modify the language definition. Then there would be
no
>issues with compatibility with older files, would there? Can you do this
>with Bison?

I don't know Bison, but if it can be done in code, it can propably be done
in some Lex/YACC pair. I'm not sure if the Lex/YACC implementation would be
better or faster, however. I'm not even sure if it would be easier to
maintain or enhance.

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Rudy Velthuis

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