[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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