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expr
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Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy
I had to write an expression parser recently and found the number of names for essentially the same algorithm very confusing. There's Pratt parsing, precedence climbing, and shunting yard. But really they're all the same algorithm.
Pratt parsing and precedence climbing are the same except one merges left/right associativity precedence into a single precedence table (which makes way more sense). Shunting yard is the same as the others except it's iterative instead of recursive, and it seems like common implementations omit some syntax checking (but there's no reason you have to omit it).
Here's what I ended up with:
https://github.com/Timmmm/expr
I had to write that because somewhat surprisingly I couldn't find an expression parser library that supports 64-bit integers and bools. Almost all of them only do floats. Also I needed it in C++ - that library was a prototype that I later translated into C++ (easier to write in Rust and then translate).
npeg
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Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy
Ha, nice to see this on HN: this article was pretty helpful to me to understand the concept a few years back when extending my PEG parsing library [1] with a Pratt parser; this mitigates the problem of PEG parsers not allowing left recursion and allows for a much more concise notation of grammars with operator precedence. Thank you Bob:
1. https://github.com/zevv/npeg
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Nim v2.0 Released
Ones that have not been mentioned so far:
nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm
npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg
futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark
nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable
ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel
cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps
chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos
zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional
owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.
What are some alternatives?
pratt-parser-blog-code - The code to illustrate the pratt parser blog post for the desmos engineering blog.
awesome-nim - A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
minipratt
jsony - A loose, direct to object json parser with hooks.
futhark - Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim
torrentinim - A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows.
nlvm - LLVM-based compiler for the Nim language
mummy - An HTTP and WebSocket server for Nim that returns to the ancient ways of threads.
FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.
questionable - Elegant optional types for Nim
nimpy - Nim - Python bridge