> but if all you need is syntax highlighting, you can skip over the semantic analysis. I wish we could move toward semantics highlighting. I will chime in wit

> but if all you need is syntax highlighting, you can skip over the semantic analysis. I wish we could move toward semantics highlighting. I will chime in with you though and agree, as a writer and teacher of parsers, it doesn’t have to be that hard. In fact, if you implement your parser as a PEG, it really doesn’t have to be much longer than the input to a parser generator like YACC. Parser combinators strongly resemble the ebnf notation, it’s almost a direct translation. That’s why parser generators are possible to write in the first place. But in my opinion they are wholly unnecessary, since true grammar itself is really all you need if you’ve designed your grammar correctly. Just by expressing the grammar you’re 90% of the way to implementing it.