Subj : Re: Question to SpiderMonkey 's developers about scaner/parser To : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng From : David Bradley Date : Wed Aug 13 2003 11:58 pm Braden McDaniel wrote: > Spirit is a remarkable piece of work. It can have a steep learning curve, > though; especially if one doesn't have a firm handle on C++ templates. But > it has the distinct advantage of having no code generation step. Knowledge of templates and a compiler that can handle them well I would expect ;-) I wonder how it compares performance wise with other solutions. > Another option worth consideration is ANTLR . For anyone > familiar with the basics of BNFs, it should be quite easy to pick up. In > particular, error handling is very straightforward. Oh, right, I had forgotten about ANTLR. David .