Re: OT(slightly): parser generator for expression with custom operators

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 29/06/2011 17.39, Thomas Buergel wrote:
> > My question for CS people out there is: is it possible to automatically
> > generate a parser for such an expression language automatically, given
> > only a "tabular" description of the operators characteristics, under
> > some reasonable constraints (e.g., only unary and binary ops supported;
> > binary are only infix, etc.)?
>
> Not *exactly* the thing you're looking for, but pretty close:
> http://loop.luaforge.net/library/compiler/Expression.html

WOW! Cool! Thank you!

> I was surprised at the simplicity of it, and the fact that it's found in the LOOP package...

I wonder if its dependencies are big. As usual (for me) I'd like a pure 
Lua solution, maybe with no need to install anything, besides putting 
some files on lua path. I will investigate further... :-)

> Cheers,
> Tom