regular expressions, stack and nesting
Aaron Brady
castironpi at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 13:38:42 EDT 2009
On Mar 22, 12:18 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/22 Aaron Brady <castiro... at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Every so often the group gets a request for parsing an expression. I
> > think it would be significantly easier to do if regular expressions
> > could modify a stack. However, since you might nearly as well write
> > Python, maybe there is a compromise.
>
> If you need to parse something of decent complexity, you ought to use
> a actual proper parser generator, e.g. PLY, pyparsing, ANTLR, etc.
> Abusing regular expressions like that to kludge jury-rigged parsers
> together can only lead to pain when special cases and additional
> grammar complexity emerge and start breaking the parser in difficult
> ways. I'm not seeing the use case for your suggestion.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> --
> I have a blog:http://blog.rebertia.com
Hey, I don't see the use case either, but that doesn't stop everyone
and their pet snake from asking about it. </snippity>
I guess I'm looking at something on the scale of a recipe. Farewell,
dreams and glory. What do you think anyway?
P.S. What if the topics were, "kludge jury-rigged parsers"?
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