[antlr-interest] How to extend Java language using ANTLR

[Terence Parr]

On Jan 16, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Tony O'Hagan wrote:

>
> I'm considering writing a source to source translator that will extend
> the Java language to include some additional expressions, statements
> and possibly some modified type constructs - all of which will map to
> Java source code.
>
> Q. What approach would you recommend to minimize the code generation 
> effort?

For input-output pairs that are very similar, use the 
TokenStreamRewriteEngine; works to good effect, I believe.

http://www.antlr.org/article/rewrite.engine/index.tml

Ter
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