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From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Compiler with adjustable parsers
Keywords: parse
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Date: 3 Mar 90 06:23:16 GMT
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hackeron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes:

>Does anyone know of a compiler/language that allows you to specify changes
>to how the language is parsed (in part at least) from withing the program.

Way back in the Jurassic age, there was a lot of work by Cheatham and
Wegbreit in ``extensible languages.'' Sorry, no direct references come to
mind, although I seem to recall a CACM article by Wegbreit on ``EL1''

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Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906
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