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Guile scanners and parsers


Hi Mikael,

I would be interested to see the work you did porting the flex scanner driver 
to guile.  I'm curious as to why you did it though: is there a great deal to 
be gained by being able to change the scanner without recompiling C code?  How 
often will people want to change scanners? Also, don't you have have to 
re-write the scanner generator to write out the scheme-style tables the new 
drivers use?

I agree that it would be great to have parsers and scanners generated by 
scheme code, but I wonder if it's on the critical  path with respect to 
providing translators for other syntaxes.

Ian
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