Subj : Re: Question to SpiderMonkey 's developers about scaner/parser
To   : Lyalin Iliya <lyalin@atec.ru>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Aug 11 2003 01:36 pm

Lyalin Iliya wrote:

>>I just wonder why it was important to ask now.
>>    
>>
>Because I will write JavaScript parser(with scaner) for my company.
>So I should choose between yacc-generated or hand-made.
>

Do you want good error recovery?  I haven't evaluated yacc-like tools in 
a while, but some yacc-like tools specialize in error recovery more than 
others.  The old yacc error production stuff is tedious to use, enlarges 
the grammer quite a bit if used a lot, and doesn't give the best results.

Since you know bison and flex, if you stick with them, please let us 
know how they worked out.

/be

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