New Syntax Checker for the Routing Registries

Laurent Joncheray <lpj at merit.edu> writes
 * 	Hi folks, the ALC daemon now accepts updates of the DB  on the fly.
 * As a side effect it can check the syntax of the objects (without registering
 * them) peolpe submit.
 * 	Is anybody interested in hacking dbupdate so it uses alcd to
 * check the syntax instead of the syntax.pl stuff (C.f "This is the really ugl
 * y bit")? The yacc parser ALC uses is a lot more rebust than the
 * perl code (IMHO).

Perhaps true in a sense, but will it also do on-the-fly corrections
and suggestions on what the error can be like the syntax.pl code?
Also, the mix between C and perl code makes me shiver. I generally do
not like mixing all sorts of types when everything can be done with
one. This is not a gripe against alc, but a very general remark. Fact
is that we do not have the time to re-implement everything in C.

-Marten

PS a very rough prototype of classless indexing in Perl is working. We
hope to have a beta classless database running the end of next week.
It uses a home-made algorithm to store and find more and less
specific addresses.



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