[DGD]parse_string

[Malcolm Tester]

I for one would love to see more examples of parse_string().  Bring it on :)

Malc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix A. Croes [mailto:felix at dworkin.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:57 PM
> To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
> Subject: RE: [DGD]parse_string
> 
> 
> Jason Cone <jcone at uscdev.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 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").
> 
> I used the words "dumb down" not as a justification for the lack of
> documentation, but in a refusal to apologize for the presence in DGD
> of features, the advanced uses of which, even if I wrote a whole book
> about them, would still be too hard for many computer science 
> graduates.
> DGD's string parser is considerably more powerful and difficult to
> use than yacc.
> 
> Nevertheless, I believe that there are some people on this 
> mailing list
> who do understand it, and I hope that they will provide code wrappers
> and examples for the others.
> 
> Regards,
> Dworkin
> 
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