Re: GSOC 2016: FastParse library

A CSS parser would serve the purpose as well and could plausibly be useful.
I think a Smalltalk parser would be a bit obscure I don't think it would
serve well: people won't be familiar enough to use it as an example, nor
would they find it useful in real life for parsing their smalltalk code
(since they won't have any)

I'm not totally convinced that a CSS parser would be simpler than a
Markdown parser though. The CSS3 Grammar:

   - https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/

Certainly looks awfully complicated!


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Naftoli Gugenheim <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Have you seen CommonMark (http://commonmark.org/)?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:59 PM Vladimir Polushin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Several days ago I started to write markdown parser, but now this task
>> seems to me very hard to implement. I tried to google grammars of markdown
>> or some specification, but markdown literally doesn't have any standard and
>> any grammar I found is quite large and complicated for the first experience
>> with library. So may I write CSS or Smalltalk parser first? They have clear
>> and concise grammars, which won't cause difficulties in the implemenation.
>>
>>
>> пятница, 11 марта 2016 г., 7:24:06 UTC+3 пользователь Haoyi Li написал:
>>
>>> Hello! I wrote FastParse.
>>>
>>
>>> A good first contribution to FastParse would probably be some kind of
>>> example parser. The project already has Scala, Python, JSON and XML
>>> parsers, but it would be nice to add to the collection.
>>>
>>> For example, a FastParse based Markdown parser would both very useful as
>>> well as serve to introduce you to the FastParse library and build you up to
>>> a reasonably high level of expertise. You would gain a much deeper
>>> understanding of its behavior and internals, the "why"s of the library, and
>>> be in a much better position to contribute significantly.
>>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Vladimir Polushin <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I am a third-year undergraduate Computer Science student at the Moscow
>>>> State University. I've been working with scala for a year and now I want to
>>>> start contributing to the Scala community. I looked thought the list of
>>>> ideas for GSOC, and I liked The FastParse library. I've already used Scala
>>>> Parser Combinators and I have a basic knowledge about formal grammars and
>>>> compilers. So where can I start? Should I fix some bug in that repository
>>>> first?
>>>>
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