Re: Status of ayacc and aflex?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Niklas Holsti wrote:
> I very much like the absence of any "generator" step -- a simple
> "gnatmake" is enough to update the application after a change to
> the token structure.
>
> I have not used the parsing functions in OpenToken; they did not
> exist when I started to use OpenToken, so I got into the habit of
> writing my parsers manually.

I too like the absence of a generator, and I'm used to writing my own
parsers by hand. Did you find that OpenToken helped a lot in doing
that? I've never used it myself because all the languages I've had to
parse were extremely simple (and purpose-built).

--
Ludovic Brenta.