RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: newrule from metalex.lisp

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Weiss, Juergen wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| There should be only one parse - for sure. The old one does
| not support rules for the interpreter. The bootstrap of
| the old parser generator is another difficulty. With at least
| the possibility to use Aldor as the new compiler there
| are quite a few arguments in favor of the new parser. It is
| similar in style to the boot translator.
| 
| A few years ago I made an argument in favor of the
| old parser on this mailing list -- as the one doing the
| boot translation, the interpreter parsing and the
| parsing for the SPAD compiler. But the code seems to be
| quite fragile. In the mean time I think the new
| parse could be the better solution.

As ever, thanks sharing your experience and insight with these issues.

I'll put the move to new parser on my todo list.


-- Gaby