[antlr-interest] action syntax proposal for v3

Sohail Somani sohail at taggedtype.net
Sun Nov 6 09:35:15 PST 2005


On Sun, 2005-06-11 at 12:38 +0100, Martin Probst wrote:
> > It would also give the grammars a slight aspect-oriented touch.
> 
> Everytime I ask someone for an example for the use of Aspect Oriented 
> Programming the only thing they can come up with is logging...

>From what little I know about AOP, I think it would work well for a
compiler operating on syntax trees. I think there are papers on aspect
oriented compilers (compilers written using the aspect oriented method).

AOP is kind of an intrusion (for better or worse) into normal OO ways of
thinking.



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