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Re: Parser performance etc.


John Tobey <jtobey@channel1.com> writes:

> Andrew Archibald <aarchiba@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> >  On the other hand, flex and bison input
> > files include a lot of C code, so directly porting them wouldn't be
> > very helpful. 
> 
> ... unless you could somehow bootstrap ctax..  ;^}

<shudder> The syntax isn't *that* C-like.  Just enough to pacify
parenophobes.  And the semantics are definitely schemey. 

Andrew