Re: [Acme] ACME or EST?

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Sat, 29 November 2014 14:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] ACME or EST?
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On Saturday, November 29, 2014, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> > Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com <javascript:;>>
> >> I am not sure that the message description language matters very much
> Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> > Here's a paper that argues otherwise:
> > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/papers/langsec-tr.pdf
>
> how did you guess what i had in mind :)?  one would hope that we do not
> need to be taught this lesson yet again.  the only answer i have gotten
> is an example parser,
> https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n/blob/master/src/js0n.c which, while an
> fsm, does not unequivocally make the case that the language is lr.


There appears to be a yacc grammar for JSON [1], which implies that it is
at least LALR.  I'm not real current on my language theory, but IIRC, that
implies that it is LR.

[1] https://gist.github.com/justjkk/436828



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