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Subject: Re: Writing a scanner and parser in Ada
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On Sunday, December 24, 2017 at 4:08:56 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-12-24 02:15, Yves Cloutier wrote:
>=20
> > I'd like to know if there are any examples of how to write a scanner
> > and parser in Ada.
>=20
> Table-driven parser:
>=20
>     http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm#Parsers_etc
>=20
> > I have a pet project where I have a DSL that I want to use as input,
> > scan, parse, then output as Groff code.
>=20
> Normally for a domain-specific language you would do all that in a=20
> single step: match source against current table, descent/ascent and/or=20
> generate code, repeat.
>=20
> --=20
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Hi Dimitry,

Yes my Perl version does all that in 1 pass, but one of the things I want t=
o do is have it generate for different targets.  Groff was my initial one. =
 I wan't creating any kind of AST but I think I'll want to do that in my re=
write to make things simpler and allow for generating for other targets lik=
e maybe Latex, or epub etc...

I'll have a look, thanks for the link!