Re: [jison] What is the release schedule for Jison?
- From:
- Robert Plummer
- Date:
- 2011-08-02 @ 18:44
I will. I must say though that I've not had many problems with the parser,
you guys are doing great!
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Zachary Carter <zack.carter@gmail.com>wrote:
> For version 1.0 we will have the remaining major features of Bison
> implemented; the most significant of which is GLR parsing (which can
> parse ambiguous grammars.) To get there, we need to move from LALR(1)
> to efficient LR(1), then from LR(1) to GLR. There are some other
> interesting bottom-up parser upgrades worth exploring, but that is
> post 1.0 work. The other lagging features are debugging related.
>
> Implementing GLR would likely take a few weeks of sustained effort,
> which are hard to come by. In addition, there are many interim
> features and bugfixes in need of attention. Most practical grammars
> are expressible with LALR(1) and a good lexer, so the urgency is not
> so great.
>
> Version 0.3 is coming up next, and will include syntactic sugar for
> grammar files and reduced parser sizes. Check out the master branch
> for the latest.
>
> --
> Zach Carter
>
--
Robert Plummer