Re: GSOC 2016: FastParse library

Denys Shabalin <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Mar 2016 03:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.scala
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A bit more info on the project I had in mind:

https://github.com/scala/scala-lang/pull/424

Potential contributors: you can still apply for this one. 

Cheers,
Denys

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 11:37:13 AM UTC+1, Haoyi Li wrote:
>
> Given we already have the Scalaparse XML parser 
> <https://github.com/lihaoyi/fastparse/blob/master/scalaparse/shared/src/main/scala/scalaparse/Xml.scala#L10-L130>, 
> I doubt an XML parser is a summer's worth of work, unless you want to hook 
> it up with a downstream AST and API and other such tools. I'd estimate it'd 
> take 1-2 weeks to rip out the Scalaparse XML parser and feed through enough 
> XML as a test suite to be pretty confident of it's correctness.
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Denys Shabalin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Another thing that would be great to have is an XML parser. 
>> I'd be willing to mentor if anyone wants to work on that. 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Denys
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 9:14:24 PM UTC+1, Haoyi Li wrote:
>>>
>>> Math expressions would be too simple. I'd be fine with a CSS parser
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Simon Ochsenreither <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Haoyi, I think CSS would be a lot simpler. Not sure if your choice 
>>>> of Markdown was intentional, but Markdown knocks it out of the ballpark in 
>>>> terms of difficulty. Personally, I would rather parse C++ than Markdown. 
>>>> It's really really ugly to parse, and because it's so different from 
>>>> programming languages it's hard to find help if one is stuck.
>>>>
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