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Tatoo: an innovative parser generator

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This paper presents Tatoo, a new parser generator. This tool, written in Java 1.5, produces lexer and bottom-up parsers. Its design has been driven by three main concerns: the ability to use the parser with the non-blocking IO API; the possibility to simply deal with several language versions; a clean separation between the lexer definition, the parser definition and the semantics. Moreover, Tatoo integrates several other interesting features such as lookahead-based rule selection, pluggable error recovery mechanism, multiple character sets optimized support.

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PPPJ '06: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
August 2006
230 pages
ISBN:3939352055
DOI:10.1145/1168054
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