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Re: A generic reader for Guile?
> Well, we need to check this. But it was my impression that both flex
> and bison uses more tables than should be necessary in a vanilla
> solution. My direct thought was that they use extra tricks which make
> them faster. (It's no use arguing with me about this because I don't
> know what I'm talking about. :)
They do but this should be transparent to the user so if we ever do
write a scheme rule generator, the skeleton would be all that has
to change, not the user-interface. At least one of the tricks is for
the purpose of table compression which is going to be useful whatever
the language.
- Tel