Monthly Archives: August 2008

A syntactic dilemma (and an intro to Gazelle’s ambiguity resolution)

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Josh

As I’m adding more capabilities to the Gazelle grammar description language, I’ve come up against a problem for which I can’t find any solution I like. So I’m putting it to you, my esteemed readers, to suggest a solution I … Continue reading →

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Clarification and apology

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Josh

Terence Parr (author of ANTLR) pointed out a mistake I made when I was describing how ANTLR deals with non-LL(*) grammars. I said that ANTLR’s option for dealing with non-LL(*) grammars is to do a depth-first search which runs in … Continue reading →

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The grammars Gazelle can handle

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Josh

I wanted to follow-up a bit more on my recent posts about the grammars Gazelle and competing parsing frameworks can handle. Here is an Euler diagram showing my current understanding of what grammars Gazelle can handle compared with the well-known … Continue reading →

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SVG support in Firefox 3

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Josh

Whoa! Am I the only one who didn’t get the memo that suddenly Firefox has really impressive SVG support? Check out these demos and be amazed at what you didn’t think your browser (sans Flash) could do. Is there any … Continue reading →

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