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Re: Bison and LR(1) Parsers
From: |
Tim Josling |
Subject: |
Re: Bison and LR(1) Parsers |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 07:16:42 +1000 |
Hans,
Can you point me to the Berkeley work? Is Susan Graham the
person?
Tim Josling
Hans Aberg wrote:
>
> I am not sure any of them will prove to be _the_ best. At Berkeley, they
> work on what might be viewed as the successor of Bison's semantic feature,
> based on algorithms such as GLR. Different algorithms might work in
> different contexts.
>
> >If someone implements the Fortes approach in a reasonable time, I
> >would use that, otherwise I would propose to write vanilla LR(1)
> >functionality.
>
> My hunch is that you should not tie your efforts to any eventual
> developments of the DR algorithm.
>
> Possibly you should instead coordinate your efforts with the Berkeley
> group, as they are developing their own version of Bison/Yacc. You might
> try contacting Susan L Graham <address@hidden>, which once upon the
> time was the thesis advisor of Paul Corbett who wrote Bison.
>
> Hans Aberg