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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:48:50 +0100
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Date: 2011-11-04T09:48:50+01:00
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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;

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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