[antlr-interest] Re: ANTLR translation - e.g. Java->tree->Java

[atripp54321]

I have a straightforward JavaEmitter class that produces 
decent-looking java code from an ANTLR AST.
I'll mail it to you (I assume it's poor edicate to post
900 lines of code).

Andy

--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Tyler" <tt2333 at y...>
wrote:
> I'm contemplating an ANTLR translation project.
> 
> To do this I need to reconstruct the Java file from its tree.
> 
> There seem to be several problems.
> 
> One is that unicode information seems to get blatted.
> 
> Another is that most of the Java parsers I can see
> strip out comments and white space.  I'm likely to
> be wanting to preserve these as much as possible -
> and maybe have them in the parse tree.
> 
> About the only existing Java ANTLR translation project
> I'm aware of is Jalopy: http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Jalopy suggests that something is at least possible - but
> it is big and complex - and I'd like a bit of a less hairy
> example.
> 
> Are there any other ANTLR translation projects out there?
> 
> I'm a bit suprised ANTLR isn't already a little more translation-
> oriented.
> 
> After all, being able to reconstruct the original file is a good 
> test for having parsed it correctly ;-)


 

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