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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:48:50 +0100
Date: 2011-11-04T09:48:50+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pri99xbxqfe2$.tyajyum2huq5.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4eb31240$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net

On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:14:24 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 03.11.11 12:36, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
>> In my opinion, this recursive descent style is much harder to
>> understand. In particular, it is very difficult to see that the program
>> structure matches the grammar structure.
> 
> Yes, recursion does take getting used to.  I am sketching a generator
> that will remove the burden of writing the recursive subprograms.

Hmm, actually recursive descent parser is the simplest thing in the world.
I never could understand why anybody would need to write some library for
that. What is wrong with

   case Token_Table.Match (Source) is
      when Boo_Token => Do_Boo;
      when Foo_Token => Do_Foo;
      ...
   end case;

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27  1:18 Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! Stephen Leake
2011-10-27  7:12 ` Alex R.  Mosteo
2011-10-28 12:51   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:50 ` Jeffrey Creem
2011-10-28 13:01   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:58 ` Brian Drummond
2011-10-28  1:37 ` Shark8
2011-10-28 12:22 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 13:37   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 14:46     ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 20:47       ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 21:59         ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30  3:51           ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30  7:20             ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30 10:56       ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-30 17:32         ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 15:32     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-29 16:09       ` Simon Wright
2011-10-29 17:32         ` tmoran
2011-10-30 11:38           ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 20:51         ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30 11:32       ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-31 22:34         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-01  8:41           ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-01  9:30         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-02 15:55           ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 17:37             ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-08  3:56               ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-03  0:37             ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-03 11:36               ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-03 15:24                 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-03 18:43                   ` Pascal Obry
2011-11-03 22:14                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-04  8:48                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-11-04 12:18                   ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-04 15:03                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-05 16:56                       ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-01  9:52         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 15:59           ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 16:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 17:38               ` Simon Wright
2011-11-10 17:25 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-27 15:18 ` mockturtle
2011-11-28 22:35   ` Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! (but music player failure) Stephen Leake
2011-11-29 11:23     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-30  3:33       ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-30 18:57         ` Georg Bauhaus
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