Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter

[Stephen Leake]

Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>
>> That's true for the common TS runtime, which implements the parser and
>> error recovery, but the code for each language, that builds the LR parse
>> table and some other data structures, is generated in C from a grammar
>> file written in javascript, and must be linked into Emacs somehow. In
>> addition, some languages require an "external scanner", which is more
>> code in C that is specific to the language.
>
> Interesting.  I assume it would be possible to reuse the source grammar
> files?

If they are licensed as free software, yes, of course.

What sort of reuse do you have in mind?

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