[DGD]parse_string

[Felix A. Croes]

Stephen Schmidt <schmidsj at union.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Par Winzell wrote:
> > Yes, parse_string()'s functionality easily encompasses (and exceeds)
> > regexp parsing.
>
> Easily?   ;)
>
> > It is a very generic mechanism that takes some getting used to, and
> > the reason it is presented in the documentation without examples and
> > such is probably that any decent computer science graduate will have
> > taken at least one course where he is forced to soak his mind in the
> > details of context-free parsing.
>
> Sure. The problem is that many people are not computer science
> graduates. I'm not. If DGD is designed to be only for people who
> are, that will restrict its potential audience considerably....

Some things are just too powerful and too important to dumb down.
I'm sure that some useful parse_string() wrappers will eventually
find their way into the public domain, though.

Regards,
Dworkin

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