Re: Next against the wall when the virtual revolution comes...
[email protected] (Andy Wardley) Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:30:41 +0100 (BST)
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> I agree about the value of having bothe RecDescent & LALR, I've just > never used either ::Yapp or ::Lex. > > Is Parse::Yapp is the more mature of the two? I just grabbed a copy of Parse::Lex and had a quick look at it. It's pretty much Lex done in Perl, while Parse::Yapp is ditto for YACC. Although the two can operate in mutual exclusion of each other, they do go together like, er, Lex and Yacc (they even wrote a book about them :-), so it seems sensible to include them both. Parse::RecDescent is a different beast altogether and there's plenty of time when you might choose one over the other(s). I'd say include all 3. A