Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

>>compare with caml solutions? compare with any other solution?
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>There are parsers for Haskell which would compare very favourably 
>with your lisp parser. I haven't used them myself but I've seen 
>example code somewhere.
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The Parsec manual contains a few nice examples and pointers to further 
literature
on parser combinators if you are interested.

<http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/parsec.html>

Everything is statically checked of course ;-)

All the best,
-- Daan Leijen.


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>>i'm told there are good scheme compilers.
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>Since scheme is a dynamically typed language, scheme compilers are
>unlikely to ever produce code as fast as a compiler for a statically 
>typed langugae like ocaml.
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>Erik
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