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marpatcl_introduction - Marpa/Tcl - Introduction to Marpa/Tcl

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Description

Welcome to Marpa/Tcl, a Tcl binding to the "libmarpa" parsing engine.

Please read the document Marpa/Tcl - Introduction to Marpa/Tcl, if you have not done so already. It provides an overview of the whole system.

Audience

This document is targeted at all users of Marpa/Tcl.

The remainder of this document contains references to additional documents containing more information, dependent on the goals of the user.

User, creating parser packages

As a user intending to create one or more parsers with Marpa/Tcl an installation is needed. If a pre-made set of binary packages is not available then section Builder and distributor applies.

With the installation available the relevant documents are

  1. Marpa/Tcl - The Generator Application.

  2. Marpa/Tcl - The SLIF grammar specification language.

Builder and distributor

As a user intending to build Marpa/Tcl from its sources the relevant documents are

  1. Marpa/Tcl - How To Get The Sources.

  2. Marpa/Tcl - The Installer's Guide.

Maintainer, Developer

As a user intending to maintain Marpa/Tcl, or add functionality to it the relevant documents are

  1. Marpa/Tcl - How To Get The Sources.

  2. Marpa/Tcl - The Installer's Guide.

  3. Marpa/Tcl - The Developer's Guide.

Bugs, Ideas, Feedback

This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such at the Marpa/Tcl Tracker. Please report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation as well.

Keywords

aycock, character classes, context free grammar, document processing, earley, horspool, joop leo, lexing, libmarpa, nigel horspool, parsing, regex, table parsing