[ragel-users] ragel-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1

[M Conrad]

I looked at ANTLR a bit, but it seemed like their approach was to add lots  
of "magic" to an LL parser.

I'm rather fond of the LR algorithms, and while it's harder to make  
friendly error messages with them, the good old "unexpected $token at  
$line,$col" isn't really so bad.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:42:58 -0400, JesusFreke <jesusfreke at jesusfreke.com>  
wrote:

> I'm not sure if it meets your criteria, but I've used ANTLR and found it  
> to
> be very good. One of the nice things about it is that it includes an  
> "IDE"
> type environment where you can step through the parser on a  
> token-by-token
> basis, see the rules it is picking and the parse tree it is generating.  
> It
> was an invaluable tool while developing my parser in ANTLR. I only wish I
> had known about ragel at the time. I had wrote my lexer initially with
> ANTLR, and then I rewrote it in jflex for better performance. Now that  
> I've
> used ragel a bit, I may end up doing one more rewrite :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <ragel-users-request at complang.org>  
> wrote:
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>> Subject: [ragel-users] LALR(1) companion tool for Ragel scanner
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>> Hi, I am wondering if there is a good LALR(1) parser generator for use
>> with Ragel that has as nice of a host-language interface as Ragel does.
>>
>> I found Lemon, but it generates almost unreadable code, and half the  
>> time
>> it tells me about errors in my grammar with meaningless assertion  
>> errors.
>> Also, I really like the way Ragel can be inlined with the host language,
>> and would like to find a parser-generator to match.
>>
>> If one doesn't exist, I am considering writing one.  (I've written the
>> LALR(1) algorithm in Java before, so it wouldn't be that hard) But, I
>> don't want to waste effort if it is redundant.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to other LR parsers that you like?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Mike
>>
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