Lexxing and yaccing...

Hi, all

For those of us who are working on the parser, and compiler, 'A Guide to Lex
& Yacc' by Thomas Niemann should probably be prescribed reading (if you
haven't already read it). This is a really constructive guide to using the
two together, and very informative.

However, the most interesting part that I noticed is on the second page,
under the 'Other Titles' section. It's called 'Operator-Precedence
Parsing'. I haven't yet managed to get to it, because the web server (or my
browser, I'm not sure yet) keeps hooching over the page, however, I'll put
money on the fact that it will provide us with some insight into solving the
current operator problem(s?) that we have (see previous postings titled
'Status Report: long query string changes' and "Postgres' lexer"). I will
try to get it. If anybody wants a copy and is too lazy to go to the web
site, let me know and I'll mail you a copy.

MikeA