[antlr-interest] cool idea

[Balvinder Singh]

Hi ,

Go to stanford site they have implemented lenaguage called "cool", its an
object oriented language. They provide a framework for designing AST. It may
not be the good idea of unique AST for all lang. In"cool" project  specify
ur structure AST in separate file.

Balvinder




> I had an idea last night, It sounds quite obvious
> and I had kind of feelings that It might already be
> an aim of the ANTLR project, if it is then somebody
> can give me the lowdown on the current status of
> this particular idea.
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> I was thinking that if somebody designed some kind
> of standard AST way to represent a program such
> that any program in any language could be represented
> by this type of AST then one could create translators
> from lots of languages to create this AST and then
> translators from the AST to lots of languages so that
> translation from any language to any language would
> be possible.
>
> Has anyone started implementing this idea? (if it should
> be obvious to me that someone, or everyone has,
> then I apologise for my ignorance)
>
> I am sure such a system would be very useful but perhaps
> it kind of begs one to look into more complicated reflexive
> systems such as TUNES instead..
>
> Regards
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