Re: LPEG primer

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> In my experience, PEG parsing is easier to understand than Yacc/Lex or 
> Antlr one.

I only heard about the first two. I tried, just out of curiosity, ANTLR 
some years ago, but I gave up fairly soon: really too much CS background 
needed.

> Anyway, I am in your case: I have some programming experience, but only 
> a faint CS background. I dived into the Wikipedia article, looked at the 
> original article on PEG, read various other sources, and I finally found 
> out it wasn't so complex...

I hope it will be the same for me! :-)

> > Maybe I'm missing something and effectively LPeg can be used 
> > effectively only by people
> > with strong CS background ?
>
> Not at all.

Thanks for the reassurance!

> As said, it is worth studying it a bit more. Somehow, it is simpler than 
> regular expressions, after all, and much more powerful.
> It is worth analyzing Roberto's examples, and making your own exercises 
> on simple grammars.

Ok. I'll start my practice with a bit more confidence then.
Thanks Philippe!

-- Lorenzo