[antlr-interest] StringTemplate is Ok, but what about "Action code"?

[Harald Mueller]

Hi -

Why would you want to do this?? - whatever you do in actions, you need to express some sort of "algorithm." I do not see another possibility than to have SOME language that will express what you need. Java is perfect: It will decouple you (they say) from any plat form specifics, because you write it once, and it runs everywhere ;-)

If you do not believe this, you must invest in your own infrastructure for this: Define a language (generic bytecode? Turing machine statements ;-) ?) and deliver in-process compilers which will transform your selected language to something running on the target system.

Not even low coupling with the target language is a worthwhile consideration most times, isn't it? - except for meta-tools like e.g. ANTLR itself.

Regards
Harald M.


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:35:38 +0100
> Von: Cristian Peraferrer <corellian.c at gmail.com>
> An: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Betreff: [antlr-interest]  StringTemplate is Ok,	but what about "Action code"?

> Hi,
> 
> With StringTemplate we can achieve low coupling with the target  
> language. But what about Action code?
> How we should achieve low coupling with the target language?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Cristian.
> 
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> GPG Key-ID: 0x564903FA - Jabber ID: corellian at swissjabber.ch

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