[antlr-interest] Article against TreeWalkers

Micheal J open.zone at virgin.net
Fri Mar 10 04:22:29 PST 2006


Andy,

> Well, I've done it again :)
> Wrote another article disagreeing with Terence.
> 
> It's called Manual Treewalking is Better than Tree Grammars: 
> http://jazillian.com/articles/treewalkers.html

Interesting article.

Leaving the Treewalking vs TreeGrammer issue to one side for a moment, what
advantage does manually developing your own treewalking code (a la
JavaEmitter.java) have over using a tool like TreeDL and one of the Visitor
pattern variants?


Cheers,

Micheal



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