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0 pointsagos12y ago0 comments

so the grammars are still a bunch of regexes? that'd be kind of a letdown

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IntelliJ is pretty nice on this point. You write a PEG-style parser and get a full AST. It is a lot of work, but the payoff is pretty nice and they have a lot of solid tooling to help you out.

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0 pointsagos12y ago0 comments

so the grammars are still a bunch of regexes? that'd be kind of a letdown

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BruceM12y ago

IntelliJ is pretty nice on this point. You write a PEG-style parser and get a full AST. It is a lot of work, but the payoff is pretty nice and they have a lot of solid tooling to help you out.

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