Re: Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

[Daniel Kraft]

Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply.

no problem, thanks for the reply!  I had a lot of other stuff to do 
anyways, and so didn't really get into the situation of waiting for a 
reply here ;)

> > 2) Write a seperate elisp reader, possibly in Scheme (but could be C
> > as well if that's important for performance).  This helps us keep
> > "both" readers clean and seperate, but all has to be done from ground
> > up and the code is probably slower (when written in Scheme).
>
> This sounds like the best option to me.  You could use SILex to build
> the lexer (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~dube/) and `(text parse-lalr)'
> for the parser.

Hm, ok, I'll look into those.  On the other hand I guess that Lisp has 
such a simple syntax that hand-writing some recursive-descent parser may 
be an equally good option?  Well, I'll simply give it a try!

But it seems that the LALR parser generator is part of guile-lib, and 
will introduce that as a new dependency for Guile; do you think that's 
ok?  (Haven't checked how SILex works and if it may introduce dependencies.)

Yours,
Daniel