Re: Anybody else with an interest in parser wrangling?

[John Wheeler]

On 3/20/23 15:35, David Kastrup wrote:
> Well, we are talking about core maintenance and rearchitecting here.
> The main objective in my book is making more people able to solve their
> own problems with confidence without ever having to touch the core.
>
> That involves making sure that "the way things are done" is
> straightforward and coherent and does not require to interact with any
> non-obvious bits and pieces.
Thank you.  Please help me understand your boundary between
core and non-core.  In you first message you specifically mentioned
parser.yy.  Is the lexer/parser process your focus?


> The taste and tenacity to leave something cleaner behind than what they
> started with.  But that sounds like the qualifications for a single
> person, and there might be incentive for some small team to work on
> stuff with distributed responsibilities.
In a very real sense, your qualifications describe many of the people
who populate this mailing list.

Given the history of lily/parser.yy you shared earlier, developing
a cohort of people (small team) with interests similar to yours
seems attractive for LilyPond.

As an initial step toward such a team, is there anything in particular
David Zelinsky or I could do to help your current efforts?  Perhaps,
if you have a some specific improvements you think are worth
pursuing we could see how well we could contribute.

Thank you,

John Wheeler