[antlr-interest] PHP target status

[Jim Idle]

Strangely, I was looking at this at the exact moment your email came in. I can't promise anything because I have the C++ target to finish first and people are waiting patiently on that. I was contemplating trying to generate it from the Java source, which might not give the greatest PHP source code, but should be workable. Of course, the runtime would be a fair amount of stuff to load up as a module, but I quite like PHP and I think there might well be some good use made of such a target.

Writing a target is not a small task, but it isn't a terrible thing if the target language has classes and exceptions as you can pretty much crib off the Java runtime. I have another reason to write a good AST producing Java parser, and plugging in something to spit out PHP might not be too terrible a task, especially targeting a specific set of input source code. The ZEND engine might even make it perform fairly well too.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bennett [mailto:stevagewp at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:13 PM
> To: antlr-interest Interest
> Subject: [antlr-interest] PHP target status
> 
> Just wondering whether anyone was working on a PHP target. If not, can
> anyone advise roughly how much work it would be to implement?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve