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by coolsunglasses 4672 days ago
mu

https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
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samatman 4672 days ago
Context sensitive lexing: check

Flexible grammar construction: check

Easy to manipulate resulting syntax tree: double check

Instaparse is great stuff, GLL is a phenomenally powerful algorithm.

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kazagistar 4672 days ago
That is a sexy parser generator you got there. Pity it seems to be limited to use in a Clojure environment.
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coolsunglasses 4672 days ago
>Pity it seems to be limited to use in a Clojure environment.

Don't let that limit you.

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zem 4672 days ago
the clojure project links to https://github.com/epsil/gll, the last section of which has suggestions and useful links for implementing the algorithm in other languages
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