[m-dev.] moose

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Aug-2000, Michael Day <mcda at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> On an unrelated topic, is the focus of moose creating parsers that are not
> easy to express in Mercury, or creating parsers that are more efficient
> than the equivalent code in Mercury, or something else entirely?

I think the former.  In particular, Moose lets you write left-recursive
grammars, whereas if you write grammars directly in Mercury using DCGs,
then you factor your grammar to avoid left-recursion, since that would
result in infinite loops.

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