[antlr-interest] Coctail vs ANTLR

[Ric Klaren]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:43:11PM +0300, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> It looks for me that better keep grammar and parser as LL(1),
> and avoid using of it as LL(2).

Mwoch LL(2) isn't bad.. predicates are bad every ( ) => ( ) introduces
backtracking. And that is really expensive. With k=2 you can catch a lot.
If you do the factoring of your grammar religiously then you can circumvent
also a lot of backtracking at the expense of readability of your grammar
(in general).

> Am I right that we always can use left factoring to modify some rules from
> LL(2) to LL(1) grammar ?

Guess so.

> May be only thing to really improve in ATLR, as you have mention -- scanner.
> FLEX is better.

I don't have any hard figures but I suspect it is better. I even recall
some posts in the past that said that flex was faster.

> Ric, I wonder that you say that scanner is bad because is used the same
> codegenerator as in parser. I see in code generator that is used
>         
>         if(state == Lex)
>         if(state == parser)
>         if(state == treewalker)
> 
> So having this we still can not get good scanner ?

We can have better codegen, but probably at the expense of some flexibility.
Also the codegenerator becomes more and more draconian to look at. I'd
prefer some rewriting...

Ric
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