Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!spdcc!esegue!compilers-sender From: ipser@vaxa.isi.edu (Ed Ipser) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Compiler with adjustable parsers Keywords: parse,books Message-ID: <1990Mar3.152139.27566@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Date: 3 Mar 90 15:21:39 GMT References: <1990Mar1.143905.14553@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: Ed Ipser Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute Lines: 16 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us In article <1990Mar1.143905.14553@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> 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. >I'm thinking of something like having statements in the language that define >how to recognize data types. for example one could have a data type set >that is usually defined as follows: The proceedings of the '69 and '71 Extensible Language Symposiums were published in SIGPLAN issues volume 4, number 8, August '69 and volume 6, number 12, December '71, respectively. I think that you will find what you are looking for in these issues. -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {spdcc | ima | lotus}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue. Please send responses to the author of the message, not the poster.