In article <MDBBJLBFBICIIEIHFBMECEDCDFAA.hallane@???>,
"Hal Lane" <hallane@???> writes:
> > > When I took a quick look at the formula parser some time ago,
> > > I was pretty intimidated. The parser looked like an ad hoc
> > > design approach, rather than an automatically generated parser,
> > > like lex and yacc.
> >
> > Yes, its pretty inscrutable. My long term approach is actually to
> > replace the parser entirely, but I wouldn't mind fixing the bug that
> > causes some formulas to render incorrectly in the near term.
>
> The language that needs to be parsed is a essentially a 'tiny c'.
Not really. C syntax is nothing at all like fractint's formula
syntax.
> 'tiny c' in lex and yacc that might be usable.
I'm not using lex/yacc.
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