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Subject: Re: LALR parser question
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> I've started toying around with building an Ada 2012 parser using the=20
>=20
> ANTLR v4 parser generator tool. I haven't gotten very far with this yet=
=20
>=20
> so it's too early to draw any conclusions but ANTLR is quite powerful so=
=20
>=20
> I'm hoping the process will be fairly enjoyable... educational at least :=
)

For a small home-brewn language based on a virtual machine written in Ada I=
 am currently investigating whether I should use a parser generator that ca=
n generate Ada code or write the tokenizer/parser by hand. I'm currently te=
nding towards OpenToken but also looking for alternatives, so I was wonderi=
ng:=20

Have you checked ANTLR's Ada backend? It seems to have been lying dormant f=
or a long time. How usable is it?