<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Oct 8, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Jonathan Rand <<a href="mailto:rand.jc@gmail.com">rand.jc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p>I'm curious, was ANTLR considered for Mondrian? I don't know enough to say one parser is better than the other but the project I'm working on uses ANTLR and we're generally happy with it. As I said, not suggesting a change, just interested in hearing other experiences.</p></blockquote>I didn't seriously consider using ANTLR. I was familiar with JavaCC from a couple of other projects and knew that I could move from JavaCUP to JavaCC in a couple of days. I am happy with JavaCC's grammar, action syntax, conflict resolution, lexing support, runtime environment, error-reporting, performance and especially its lack of a runtime library. I didn't feel the need to look elsewhere.<div><br><div>Julian</div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>