[Mono-list] Using the mono jay parser

[Francis Brosnan Blázquez]

El dom, 10-10-2004 a las 15:02, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I assume you have already considered antlr [1] ?
> 
No, I didn't heard anything about antlr before. I've been seen its
project web page and I'm ashamed about not know anything about antlr
until now. 

> I've been using it for years and it works amazingly well.
> 

Great, I need some time to read about antlr. Let's see how it works.

> cheers,
> Rodrigo

Thanks Rodrigo, 

> 
> [1] http://www.antlr.org/
> 
> Em Sáb, 2004-10-09 às 15:27, Francis Brosnan Blázquez escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are developing an application using mono which have to parse
> > molecular definitions written in Smiles format. We have already use
> > bison and flex tools to produce scanners and parsers before, so we want
> > to keep doing the same ;).
> > 
> > We have started to figure out how mono uses the jay modified version to
> > produce its c# parser but we are having some problems. One problem is
> > that we don't find how mono produces its scanner. What lexer is mono
> > using?. The other problem is that we haven't found much documentation o=
n
> > how to use jay (not how to use lex and yacc languages) to produce a
> > parser. 
> > 
> > It would be great to have some guidelines to start. Anything will be
> > appreciated: files to look, ideas, concepts on how to use your modified
> > jay...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
-- 
Francis Brosnan Blázquez <francis@aspl.es>
Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.