[antlr-interest] A postmortem of my use of antler

Benjamin Shropshire shro8822 at vandals.uidaho.edu
Tue Mar 11 12:08:44 PDT 2008


Gerald B. Rosenberg wrote:
> At 09:34 AM 3/11/2008, Benjamin Shropshire wrote:
>> Your points #12 & #13 cover a lot of what I would have liked to see 
>> on the front page. (That and enough context for someone new to known 
>> what they are talking about.)
>
> Yes, but there is no practical way to fit it into one page.  Chapter, 
> maybe; more likely a book.
>
I'd have to disagree. The parts I want would fit in about 4-5 sentences. 
(But the list of things that others might say that about might add up 
rather quick)

>>> 14) Don't try to dump complex blocks from a parser or AST.  Use 
>>> StringTemplate to unparse.
>> Does this hold if the final output is not a text file (e.g. in memory 
>> structures or a binary data file)
>
> No and maybe.  Would be an interesting application to have 
> StringTemplate operate as a directed byte code generator.
>
Ewww. Fun...


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