Wisent release 0.4

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Today I completed version 0.4 of the Wisent parser generator for Python. The program is now efficient enough to deal with grammars of the size of the C grammar.

I spent some effort on generating useful error messages for grammar conflicts. For example the usual "if-else conflict" in the C grammar is reported as follows:

cg.wi:164:61: shift-reduce conflict: the input
cg.wi:164:61:     IDENTIFIER { if ( IDENTIFIER ) ;.else ...
cg.wi:164:61:   can be shifted using the production rule
cg.wi:164:61:     selection_statement: if ( expression ) statement.else statement;
cg.wi:164:25:   or can be reduced to
cg.wi:164:25:     IDENTIFIER { selection_statement.else ...
cg.wi:164:25:   using the production rule
cg.wi:164:25:     selection_statement: if ( expression ) statement;
cg.wi: 1 conflict, aborting ...

Now you can even tell Wisent to ignore this conflict by placing an ! before the offending else.

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