Re: Best language for implementing compilers?

From	Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Best language for implementing compilers?
Date	2019-03-09 10:14 +0100
Organization	Compilers Central
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Am 09.03.2019 um 07:47 schrieb mertesthomas@gmail.com:

> For parsing I don't think that pattern matching leads to correct
> results in all cases. I have seen too much buggy attempts to do
> parsing with pattern matching. Even for such simple things as
> lines with key=value I saw "solutions" with pattern matching, that
> triggered bugs when the line was not simple. A good approach for
> parsing is LL(1), which has nothing to do with pattern matching.

IMO bottom-up parsers (LR) do pattern matching, in contrast to top-down
parsers (LL). Where bottom-up parsers can suffer from shift/reduce
conflicts.

DoDi

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