[Cuis-dev] No regex in parser

Casey Ransberger bahweep at icloud.com
Wed Sep 25 16:19:42 PDT 2019


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> On Sep 25, 2019, at 3:40 PM, Thierry Goubier via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
> 
> C++ usually has ad-hoc handwritten parsers (for example gcc and
> clang); that does not mean the language is simple.

Yes, arguably this means that the grammar for C++ is complex. This is not an unexpected finding. If it was amenable to a formal representation and the cast of the show knew what they were doing, clang still wouldn’t be ad-hoc. But are you certain? I figured they’d be using flex/bison. 


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