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- From: bwoelfel@pixmap.seas.upenn.edu (Brian Woelfel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Is there a perl yacc?
- Keywords: yacc, perl
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:26:43 GMT
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- Is there a yacc-like package for perl, i.e. something that can convert a
- context-free grammar into perl code?
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- Assuming it doesn't exist, would it be a bad idea for one to exist?
- By this I mean would it violate some tenet of the Perl philosophy?
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- Is it way too hard to even conceive of?
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- Just wondering,
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- Brian Woelfel
- U. Penn
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