Re: gnubol: Hacks needed to parse COBOL

[Tim Josling <TIMJOSLING@prodigy.net>]

Couragous in the "Yes Minister" (English TV show) sense that 'fools must learn by
their own mistakes'. But seriously, what it the alterative?

The correct parsing of the procedure division requires symbol table information.
The lexer feedback hack thing (which is all this is), is pretty standard. The
problem gets way worse with backtracking - there is no limit to the effective
lookahead in that case, and it might even change its mind about the parse; so it
really is dangerous.

Tim Josling

RKRayhawk@aol.com wrote:

> You are a courageous individual.


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