[pypy-dev] Parsing in PyPy (and runicode)

Carl Friedrich Bolz cfbolz at gmx.de
Thu Feb 26 18:40:08 CET 2009


Hi Leonardo,

Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> I remember some time ago people on #pypy were talking about redoing  
> the parser for python because it was not good enough or something.  
> Also the parser generator that cfbolz wrote doesn't support unicode  
> and was not suited for automatic-semicolon-insertion.
> 
> I think it would be good for a javascript parser that supports unicode  
> because the specs call for it and maybe it would be good to python too  
> (don't know about prolog/smalltalk though). What would be better, to  
> have a parser generator that supports unicode or just everyone write  
> their own recursive descendant parser by hand?

Are you sure that we shouldn't rather try to steal one of the existing
JS parsers? If license really is a problem, maybe we could ask the
authors whether they would be fine with relicensing under MIT.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich



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