[m-dev.] names of the scanner and parser generators

[Ian MacLarty]

On 22 Dec 2005, at 10:02, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> They have now reached the stage where they are starting to work.
> Currently, the scanner generator is called "caribou" and the parser 
> generator
> is called "elk", but these names aren't exactly mnemonic. I am thinking
> of naming them "merscangen" and "merparsegen", or something along 
> those lines,
> with their file suffixes (equivalent to .l and .y) being .mscan and 
> .mparse.
> Any opinions?
>

What about just mscangen and mparsegen?  That would be more consistent 
with other Mercury tools like mslice, mdice, mprof, mdb etc.

Ian.

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