[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0 news

[Monty Zukowski]

Very cool!

Keep on truckin'

Monty

On Jun 1, 2004, at 9:52 AM, Terence Parr wrote:

> Ah...The joys of summer "vacation".
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> Yesterday at 3:00 CA time, the core ANTLR 3.0 grammar analysis engine
> "achieved consciousness". :)  It performed it's first real full parse
> using the new LL(*) arbitrary lookahead parsing/lookahead scheme (and
> used unicode characters).  The parse was done using an interpreted
> version.  You can say:
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> Grammar g = new Grammar("a grammar description");
> g.parse(start rule name, an input stream);
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> It may or may not be useful as a feature after release, but it proves
> the LL(*) concept at the moment and lets me construct basic char /
> token stream requirements.
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> I have launched ANTLR code-generator background threads in my head
> while I take care of some other business.  I'm dying to explore using
> StringTemplate for code generation :)
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> Don't forget folks that this is the hard part, but the small part of a
> parser generator.  There is a huge amount of thought that needs to go
> into the stuff surrounding the engine, just like in a car.  I imagine
> that the antlr runtime specifications for tokens, trees, templates,
> etc... will take a lot of time as will a manual/book etc...  This
> announcement does not mean a 3.0 version is imminent.  I hope to have a
> trivial version of 3.0 working with a few features by the ANTLR
> workshop.
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> Terence
> PS	The hoisting of semantic predicates algorithm in written down in my
> "lab notebook" and is a simple extension to LL(*).  I'll crank that out
> real quick before doing code gen I think.
> --
> Professor Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco
> Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator, http://www.antlr.org
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Monty Zukowski

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