Re: nyacc version 0.71.0 released

[Chaos Eternal]

and, for FFI purpose, I think just CPP output is enough :)

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:12 AM Matt Wette <address@hidden> wrote:

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> > On Jun 21, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Matt Wette <address@hidden> skribis:
> >
> >> nyacc version 0.71.0 is released as beta
> >>
> >> nyacc is a LALR parser generator written from the ground up in guile
> >>
> >> Features/Updates:
> >> * clean scheme-flavored syntax for grammar specification
> >> * prototype parsers for C99,(partial) javascript, matlab that output
> parse trees in a SXML format
> >> * update: C99 preprocessor updated to expand defines in C code
> >> * update: cleaned up file structure
> >> * update: started working on test-suite
> >> * update: added grammar for C++
> >
> > Very impressive!
> >
> > Side note: it would be nice if there were a tiny configure.ac and
> > Makefile.am to simplify build and installation.  :-)
>
> Thanks.  Getting C++ and Javascript fully working is going to be a lot of
> work: C++ needs backtracking and Javascript needs “pruning”.  But the C99
> parser is mature enough to provide some value, I think.
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> Regarding using autoconf, I was hoping to minimize overhead code.  If the
> lone Makefiles are not cutting it I can work to blend in autoconf.
>
> Irrelevant side note: Years ago I developed a tool like automake, called
> metamake, that provided macros, implemented in M4, to expand “makefile.mm"
> into “makefile".   To this day automake just seems to me like the wrong way
> to do that job.
>
> Matt
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