Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:26:08 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc question Message-ID: <199611291426.IAA15151@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <v01540b11aec3de6b7afb@[194.32.164.2]>
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In article <v01540b11aec3de6b7afb@[194.32.164.2]> you write:
>>I've written a number of parsers, too. Nonen of them needed:
>>
>> KEYWORD rest of stuff to end of line
>
>Ever heard of Ada?
>
> -- and the rest of the line is a comment
# sh does it too.
// And C++
% And Postscript
; And a number of assemblers
! And X resource files
XCOMM And Imakefiles
I just don't get it. Why use a formal grammer to parse 821 anyway, not to
mention that
KEYWORD\ .* { foo(yytext+sizeof "KEYWORD"); }
works fine. Did you see the disgusting trick I pulled there?
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