[antlr-interest] CommonTree & Tree grammar versus DIY

Marc Bischof atlan at gmx.li
Thu Aug 14 23:01:53 PDT 2008


Hello Andy,

in your article you wrote:

>I think the approach that you'll prefer depends on your background. If you're 
> already intimately familiar with the ":", "[". "]", "*" , "{", "}", and ";" 
> constructs in the first approach, you will prefer the terse approach. On    
> the other hand, if you don't want to be bothered with all that "extra      
> syntax", you'll prefer the more verbose "plain Java" approach. 

I think, if someone is not familiar with grammar stuff and has not the 
background for writing translators, the last thing he/she should do is 
writing it by hand.
...may be to get familiar with it, but not for a productive solution.

Cheers Marc


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