LEMON(1)

💖 LEMON(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the lemon man page, and honestly? it's giving parser generator royalty. this is from the General Commands Manual section, so pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

lemon — The Lemon Parser Generator 🍋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lemon [-bcgmqsx] input

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so lemon is a LALR(1) parser generator for C or C++, no cap. it does the exact same job as bison and yacc do. but bestie, listen — lemon is not just another bison or yacc clone, okay? it's not a knockoff, it's the main character 💅

it uses a different grammar syntax that was designed specifically to reduce the number of coding errors you'd otherwise make. and the parsing engine? more sophisticated than the yacc/bison situation, and it's faster than both of them. it's also both reentrant and thread-safe, which is lowkey iconic 🌈

AND — as if that wasn't enough — lemon implements features that can be used to eliminate resource leaks, which makes it suitable for use in long-running programs like graphical user interfaces or embedded controllers. obsessed fr fr 🎀

so what actually happens when you run it? lemon will read the grammar from input and write out a parser for that grammar in the C language. that's the whole vibe ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -b — Print only the basis in report.
• -c — Don't compress the action table.
• -g — Print grammar without actions.
• -m — Output a makeheaders compatible file.
• -q — (Quiet) Don't print the report file.
• -s — Print parser stats to standard output.
• -x — Print the version number.

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /usr/share/lemon/lempar.c — Driver template for the lemon parser generator.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

lemon has been written by D. Richard Hipp <drh@hwaci.com>. respect the legend 🙇‍♀️

This manual page was written by Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. thank you for your service, bestie 🫶

⭐ that's a wrap ⭐

this page is from Debian GNU/Linux, dated 2002-10-04, and it's LEMON(1). go build a parser, you absolute icon 👑🍋✨