This is just a note to myself on what procedures I take to clean up source code. This occurs because of the basic development cycle in trying to get something to work with complicated APIs, which goes something like this: I search the web to find something that supposedly works, i.e., it was written by …
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Parsing Bison grammars with Antlr
I’ve started to write an Antlr grammar for Bison, with the goal of automatically converting the grammars to Antlr, or another parser generator for that matter. As it turns out, the “central dogma” of parsing (i.e., “you cannot use an LR grammar in an LL parser, and vice versa”) is untrue with the unlimited symbol …
Dynamic and Multi-server LSP applications?
Having now implemented an LSP server and two different clients for Antlr, I can say I am more familiar with the LSP protocol. From these implementations, what can I say? LSP works well for single client/single server instances, but I am wondering how I can use LSP in a situation that modifies a workspace, reads …
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