from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Milarepa
<tool> A {Perl} {BNF} {parser generator} by Jeffrey Kegler
<[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source {grammar}
written in a mixture of {BNF} and {Perl} and generates Perl
source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the
language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted
to {LRn grammars}, and the parse logic follows directly from
the BNF. It handles {ambiguous grammars}, ambiguous tokens
(tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and
allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar
may not be {left recursive}. The input must be divided into
sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed
distinction between {terminals} and non-terminals, that is, a
symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side
of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a
single Perl program.
Version: Prototype 1.0.
Posted to comp.lang.perl.
The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
(1993-03-17)