[stringtemplate-interest] RE: [antlr-interest] Antlr 3beta2 and StringTemplate

[Micheal J]

Kay,

> From: Kay Roepke 
> Sent: 08 August 2006 09:01

> > Stumbling blocks
> > (apart from actually writing ST++) include support for C and Obj-C, 
> > cross-compiler support, cross-OS support (i.e. just the usual
> > C++-development-in-the-large issues).
> 
> At least Obj-C shouldn't be a problem. Obj-C doesn't suffer from the  
> same problems, but that is mainly because you
> don't have to be overconcerned about portability across OS, 
> compilers  
> etc. Also there's no reflection problem.
> Plain C, on the other hand, could be a very different issue,  
> depending on how far you wanted to go in terms of
> portability.

I was suggesting that there might be problems with supporting Objective-C
fully in a C++ version of ST. An Objective-C version of ST would have no
such problems and would be an easier project perhaps. Not sure how well such
a version would support C++ reflection though...

Anyways, given my basic[ly useless] knowledge of Objective-C, I imagined
full support for reflection over Objective-C types would be an issue for a
pure C++ project. I don't imagine that the C++ reflection frameworks support
Objective-C at all in fact.

As for plain C support, it is possible but it won't be pretty (or easy!).


Micheal

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