The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

Posted Oct 23, 2014 1:34 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp by Cyberax
Parent article: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

C is "very close to having a context-free grammar."
Details here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/11/24/the-context-sensi...

C++ has an undecidable grammar.

I can parse C with yacc. I could never hope to parse C++ with anything but a hand-written parser.

Posted Oct 23, 2014 11:41 UTC (Thu) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Yeah, C doesn't have to parse anything remotely like:

int Foo (int i = T<1, int>::i);