yecc question

[Joe Armstrong]

A long time ago I wrote a tutorial on the use of yecc an leex

It's at

http://www.erlang.org/contrib/parser_tutorial-1.0.tgz

Cheers

/Joe



On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, David N. Welton wrote:

> Hi, I've been trying to put some yecc code together, but I'm a bit 
> confused.  The documentation gives a simple example:
> 
> Nonterminals list elements element.
> Terminals atom '(' ')'.
> Rootsymbol list.
> list -> '(' ')'.
> list -> '(' elements ')'.
> elements -> element.
> elements -> element elements.
> element -> atom.
> element -> list.
> 
> ... which doesn't report any errors when processed with yecc:yecc("foo", 
> "bar").  So far so good.  But then the manual has this:
> 
> """The output file contains Erlang source code for a parser module with 
>         module name equal to the Parserfile parameter. After 
> compilation, the parser can be called as follows (the module name is 
> assumed to be myparser):
> 
> myparser:parse(myscanner:scan(Inport))"""
> 
> erlang-doc-html/html/lib/parsetools-1.2/doc/html/yecc.html
> 
> The 'bar' module created above doesn't have any scan function, though:
> 
> -export([parse/1, parse_and_scan/1, format_error/1]).
> 
> Is there a simple (i.e. not an erlang parser!) functioning example I can 
> look at somewhere?
> 
> Thankyou,
>