hand coding a parser

Question

For all you compiler gurus, I wanna write a recursive descent parser and I wanna do it with just code. No generating lexers and parsers from some other grammar and don\'t te

Answer 1

If you want to use the parser to also handle not-well-formed expressions, you really want a recursive descent parser. Much easier to get the error handling and reporting usable.

For literature, I'd recommend some of the old work of Niklaus Wirth. He knows how to write. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is what I used, but you can find his Compiler Construction online.