[DGD]parse_string

[Jason Cone]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erwin Harte [mailto:harte at xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
> Subject: Re: [DGD]parse_string
> 
> And?  Not any different from how bison/yacc or f?lex require certain
> knowledge if you want to work with less-than-trivial grammars on them
> and not trip over your own feet.


The main difference being that the aforementioned utilities are greatly
explained by a certain kiwi book (lex & yacc, 2nd Edition) and cater to both
the novice and advanced user alike.

The fact that a feature is "too powerful and too important" is ill
justification for the lack of practical/applicable example (what Felix
unfortunately labels "dumbing down").  To Felix's credit, though, he did
provide a grammar to parse LPC itself (along with extended discussion
regarding the functionality) in a posting to this very mailing list back in
the day.  I would encourage those of you who are seeking more information
regarding parse_string() to search through the mailing list archives on
references to parse_string.

If, after you guys have have found all the available information, you would
still like a bit more explanation on what it is and/or how/why to use it,
let me know and I'll write a complimentary document on the thing.  I'd also
be interested in posting a collection of code that I wrote for a (currently
halted and unfinished) lib development effort that duplicated (falling short
in some areas, and exceeding in other areas) MudOS' verb functionality.

JC

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