[antlr-interest] Question about antlr 3 AST tree building
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Mon Sep 11 09:23:31 PDT 2006
On Sep 11, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Vinh N. Pham wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all, I would like to thanks the antr developers for the
> wonderful tool. It is one of the best parser generators I've ever
> used.
Hooray!
> I'm currently have some difficulty of using antlr 3. In one of
> my project, I want to write a parser for a language, produce the
> AST for other developers to use as input so that they can get the
> information and do whatever translations they want. Since most of
> other developers are not computer scientists, I think it is best to
> describe the AST tree in term of the target language (Java or C++)
> for them without referring about antlr or tree parser/walker at all
> because that means they have to learn another tool. However, in
> antlr 3, the tree construction mechanism only build tree with type
> Object, and it is difficult to get a particular data member because
> it doesn't have a descriptive name. Of course, I can create the
> whole tree manually but I'm hoping there are some mechanisms in
> antlr 3 to do this automatically. After all, all information
> needed are already in the grammar file.
You can use whatever tree type you want. Set ASTLabelType I think as
an option in the grammar.
> Also, if even if we use the tree parser, what should we do if we
> need more than one way to do the translation from of the same node
> (an expression node for example)? Using more than one tree parser
> may be a little bit confusing.
>
> for example, can we do this in the same grammar file
> subroutineName1=expression: ......... will be translated to
> subroutine named subroutineName1
> subroutineName2=expression: ......... will be translated to
> subroutine named subroutineName2
That differs by an ID...how are you differentiating them?
Ter
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