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		chakkepolja on Nov 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rune Programming Language Interestingly the parser is generated using flex and bison, which I thought was rare these days.

tgv on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

If you want accurate error messages, you might want to write the parser by hand. If you want to make changing the grammar easy, and have a reliable, correct parser, you use a parser generator. Some have better error message than bison.

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