Re: [boost] Any interest for a parser class?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-16 16:05:24

At 01:18 PM 1/16/2002, Dan Nuffer wrote:

 >> - I need to know EBNF notation (or an approximation of it, if only to
 >> understand the concepts); do I really want to learn a new notation just 

 >for
 >> command line parsing, or even file parsing?
 >
 >
 >If a programmer doesn't know EBNF, then they are missing an important
 >piece of knowledge, since it's the standard for computer langauge
 >definition.

EBNF is useful for specifying all sorts of minor input processing, too.  I 
agree with Dan that it is something a well-rounded programmer would benefit 
from knowing.

It's even an ISO standard (14977).  See 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-14977.pdf and 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-14977-paper.pdf

--Beman