Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

Hi Bob!

> Well, I never really stated that that's the way I'd prefer to do it. In
> fact, I've never really understood the rationale of separating the lexer
> from the parser.

It's faster that way.

> Yacc is actually pretty powerful. I wouldn't bet on it being able to
> parse Perl or C, but I wouldn't be surprised if it could.

The only thing about C that would give you trouble is typedefs. (See
Appendix A13 to K&R: "With one further change, ..., this grammar is
acceptable to the YACC parser-generator.")

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  /jaap

P.S. Dinner?