Re: Why Mozilla prefer a manual-written parser instead of a generated one?

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:34:14 -0400

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byang wrote:
>    I don't understand why Mozilla write the parse by itself instead of
> generate on from the tools such as lex and yacc?

Please feel free to try and produce lex and yacc rules that actually 
give web-compatible parsing!

-Boris

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