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This is exyapps, a LL(1) parser generator.

It is derived from yapps ( http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/yapps/ )
by Amit J. Patel <amitp@cs.stanford.edu>.  He is no longer maintaining
it, and there seem to be several forks out there, all with varying
version numbers.  This copy was derived from some patches included
with Debian by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>

Since I want to make some of my own specific changes, I'm actually changing 
the name so this package can have a distinctive identity.  


Installing / using exyapps
--

        python setup.py install

        cd /your/project

        exyapps my_grammar.exy

For now, the package is compatible with yapps; Someday, I want to
make parsers run without the exyapps package installed.

VIM
--

Put this in .vimrc

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.exy                set filetype=python

What is here?
--

Makefile
yapps_grammar.g
        yapps_grammar.g is the source code for exyapps/grammar.py
        type "make" to re-generate it, then do an svn commit

doc
        looks like latex source for the documentation

examples
        duh

exyapps
        the exyapps package that gets installed

scripts
        "exyapps" command that compiles a parser into python code.

setup.py

test
        not actual tests, but apparently some interesting input to
        run through the parser for testing


New Features
--

- You can pass a data object to the parser for it to use as
parser-global data.  I know the OO way is to subclass the parser
object and hope you don't accidentally override/smash anything
important, but this is easier to use in a particular application
I have in mind.