[ This is cross-posted from the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
In a recent post, I looked at an unusual language which serializes arrays and strings, using a mixture of counts and parentheses. Here is an example:
A2(A2(S3(Hey)S13(Hello, World!))S5(Ciao!))
The l…
[ This is cross-posted from the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
A declarative parser takes a description of your language and parses it for you. On the face of it, this sounds like the way you'd want to go, and Marpa offers that possibility -- it generates a parser from anything you can write in BNF and, if the parser is in one of the classes currently in practical use, that parse…
I blog about Perl, with a focus on parsing and Marpa, my parsing algorithm based on Jay Earley's.
