[Mono-list] Using the mono jay parser

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:02:20 -0400


Hello,

> 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 on
> how to use jay (not how to use lex and yacc languages) to produce a
> parser. 

Mono's C# compiler has a hand-written scanner (tokenizer)

Miguel