[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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