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Subject: Re:  A payoff from using (reusing) repository software
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I wonder why you had to build a syntax analyzer at all.  Does your
compiler not give you access to the parsed form?

I ought to note that I consult for Intermetrics, whose Ada compiler
family does give you full access to syntax tree and semantic information
in standard form (Diana).  All their tools work off the parsed form, so
there is no need either to duplicate the parser nor to reparse the same
text.

	-s