On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Mark Coletti wrote: > Yo! > > Being somewhat gifted with a little free time, I was > contemplating tackling the hideousness of the command parser. > Specifically, I want to gut and replace it with a _real_ parser, one > written using lex and yacc. It would be more efficent and certainly > _much_ easier to understand, enhance, and maintain. > > I'm almost certain that I'm not the first person to dream this > up. (At least I hope I'm not!) What I would like to know is what the > status is of similar efforts. > > Anyone doing this? And is willing to admit it? ;) *IF* Yacc/Bison/Lex/Regex can be counted upon to make solid, efficient command parsers(I've only just started to look into them), then _YES_, by all means this would be the better idea. I am _TIRED_ of cast 'xxxx' and one-argument parsing! Argh! Do it ! :P =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Kenneth Cavness "Cenn Buie" -- a proud TxDarkFriend | | cavness@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin | | stargoat@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78705 | | "I lost a testicle because of the evils of MASTURBATION!!!" -- BriceW, a.a | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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