[Info-vax] Parsers (was Re: VMS Features I Wish Linux Had)

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In article <njp62q$esl$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2016-06-14 13:32:45 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
>
>>  I feel the same way.  Early on I looked at LIB$TPARSE and decided not 
>> to try to learn it.  CLD was a piece of cake.
>
>The lib$table_parse documentation is comparatively weak, and the use of 
>macros and not a DSL is not something likely to be emulated.   The tool 
>itself is easy, though quite primitive in terms of what you have to 
>code to use it.  Lots of glue code.  The need for glue code for many of 

What glue?  The action routines?  That's one of its strengths because it allows
me to decide what to do as it's being parsed apart.
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