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by zzzcpan 4663 days ago

  > I really don’t want to need a post-processing
  > phase which massages the resulting tree.
Weird, it was much easier for me to simplify the tree after the fact. As for anything else this is pretty much how I feel about yacc/bison as well. You have to invest way too much time to understand their internal workings to do anything non-trivial and it's just not worth it.