[Bioperl-l] bioperl-db

Paul Gordon gordonp@cbr.nrc.ca
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:13:07 -0400 (AST)


> Nope; it uses a very intricate, very optimized lex/yacc grammar.  See
> perly.y and friends in the perl source code.
Genbank would have a lot less shift/reduce conflicts too.

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> perl wannabe's that are joining the game that are driving me up the wall.
> 
> Ahh, nice to get that off my chest ;)
But maybe wannabes shifting to bioinformatics is not reducing conflict.
;-)

Sorry, but, how often do you get to use a grammar parsing joke...