Re: [ANN] CoreParse
Re: [ANN] CoreParse
- Subject: Re: [ANN] CoreParse
- From: Angus Hardie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:37:42 +0100
On 5 Jun 2011, at 18:22, Jens Alfke wrote:
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> On Jun 5, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:
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>> I've just completed firming up the API and documentation for CoreParse. CoreParse provides a powerful tokenisation and parsing engine, which uses shift-reduce parsing (unlike ParseKit) to support a wide range of context free grammars.
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>> Parsers can be built quickly and easily using BNF like syntax.
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> Cool! What advantages does this have over using a more-established tool like ANTLR? (“An Objective-C API” is an obvious answer, I suppose, but it doesn’t look that difficult to call into ANTLR-generated C++ code from Obj-C.)
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As a minor point, the current 3.x release of ANTLR has a (somewhat experimental) objective C API, but doesn't have a C++ API, you have to use the C API instead.
I think ANTLR 2.7.x has the C++ API, but I've never used it.
The ANTLR Objective C API appears to be making good progress and I'm hoping to switch from the C to Obj C APIs when ANTLR 4.0 is released.
I'm also looking forward to giving CoreParse a try too. It looks great.
Angus
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