[antlr-interest] Re: 2.7.2 released: get it while it's hot!

[xadeck <decoret at graphics.lcs.mit.edu>]

I would like to thank all of you too. It is really a great tool and
though It couls sound cool to work with lex and yacc cause you can
easily play the guru, I am so glad to give up with this tools of an
old age.

Of course I would still have suggestions ;-) since any good free tool
always seems to cause user to ask for more! But these are very minor,
minor suggestions and I almost feel ashame to propose.

1) it would be useful to have an empty virtual function init() called
at the end of each constructor of each base class (at least lexers and
parsers) so when you override them (one very nice feature of antlr)
you can overide this init() and ensure some initializiation (such as
for examples setting line number to 0,etc..) is performed. Right now
it seems to me you have to tell programmer using your derived lexer to
be sure to call init().

2) When generating grammar in C++ with AST disabled (using gcc-3.2)
there is a (annoying) warning due to the following code in parser.cpp
void parser::initializeASTFactory(
ANTLR_USE_NAMESPACE(antlr)ASTFactory& factory )
{
}
could just ensure that no argument name (factory) is given when
initializeASTFactory is empty. This way anltr code would compiled
nicelly without any warning.

Thanks again, I'll try to contribute soon with:
- a tutorial (for C++ users)
- an RPM for Mandrake of 2.7.2
- a release of the grammar I use for VRML2



--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at j...> 
> Folks,
> 
> Well, it only took a few years, but ANTLR 2.7.2 with lots of 
> enhancements and bug fixes is ready for your enjoyment at 
> http://www.antlr.org/download
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 parrt    parrt     1557051 Jan 20 13:11 
> antlr-2.7.2.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 parrt    parrt     1943296 Jan 20 13:12 antlr-2.7.2.zip
> 
> Thanks goes to all of you for using ANTLR and for those maniacs that 
> help(ed) implement it:
> 
> John Lilly helped build lots of the early version
> C++ code generator by Peter Wells and Ric Klaren
> C# code generation by Micheal Jordan, Kunle Odutola and Anthony 
> Oguntimehin.
> Infrastructure support from Perforce: The world's best source code 
> control system
> Substantial intellectual effort donated by
>       Loring Craymer
>       Monty Zukowski
>       Jim Coker
>       Scott Stanchfield
>       John Mitchell
>       Chapman Flack
> Source changes for Eclipse and NetBeans by
>       Marco van Meegen
>       Brian Smith
> Lots of little patches and stuff from the ANTLR community
> 
> The future: well, lots of little things like real UNICODE char set 
> support and so on, but the big thing is a completely rebuilt web site 
> (desperately needed).  I am paying to have it graphically designed and 
> then I'll build a dynamic site based upon my experience implementing 
> jGuru.  Lots of cool ideas :)
> 
> I'm also working on my CS652 programming languages course for 
> USF...you'll be able to follow along with the class by following my 
> lecture notes. :)
> 
> Terence
> --
> Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
> Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org
> Lecturer in Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco


 

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