"Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01 / hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>From: Mark Slagell <ms / iastate.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Just ran across this today. It's only a matter of time before the
>>academic world seriously grasps ruby, I think.
>>
>>http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/pl/project1.html
>
>Ben Tilly:
>If you haven't looked at this, it's basically a project to implement a
>recursive descent parser, with some examples.  Just thought you might be
>interested ;).

I was interested, but not as interested as I might be.

As I commented to someone privately, most hand-rolled
parsers are recursive descent.  I am therefore not
surprised that an exercise to handroll a parser would
be using recursive descent.

In any case their approach is rather different than
mine.  They are taking a single grammar and asking
for an OO program that parses it.  So their final
solution will likely have the grammar hard coded into
the parser.  I am trying to produce some somewhat more
general classes and then put them together in a way
that solves a useful problem.

Anyways I have my classes.  I have a test suite for
them.  I have my useful application laid out.  It is
now a question of just writing a test suite and the
example...

(It has helped that I have been sick for a couple of
days.  Not as much as a normal 2 days because I have
been busy being sick, but at least I wrote something.)

Cheers,
Ben
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