[antlr-interest] how useful would a generic grammar "action" language be?

[Matthew Ford]

Hi All,
I personally only output to one language Java and I would find writing
method code like

declare(name="t", type="int")
assign(lhs="t", rhs="3+4)
functioncall(name="foo", args="t")

obtuse.

matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:07 AM
Subject: [antlr-interest] how useful would a generic grammar "action"
language be?


> Howdy,
>
> Just added a blog entry about a generic action grammar language to
> support reuse of grammars even when they have (simple) actions:
>
> http://www.antlr.org/blog/antlr3/codegen.tml
>
> Is the idea a useful line of research?  I'll have the intermediate form
> underneath the covers anyway...
>
> Ter
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