[antlr-interest] starting with language translation

[benzo]

hi dave
I sent you some questions about metaas in your mailinglist.

//benzo

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:35 PM, David Holroyd
<dave at badgers-in-foil.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:05:49AM +0100, benzo wrote:
>  > funny you mention this. I once tried to grock
>  > http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/as2api/
>
>  Cool!  That project, being Ruby-based and targeting ActionScript 2
>  (rather than ActionScript 3), is completely unrelated to 'metaas'.
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>  > I think it also has some parser lexer functionality in it.
>  > The problem is I couln't figure out how as2api works. As I'm new to
>  > ruby I also didn't manage to debug it.
>
>  Yes, it uses a hand-rolled lexer (based on regexps) and a hand coded
>  recursive descent parser.
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>   http://svn.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/as2api/trunk/as2api/lib/parse/
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>  > IYHO could as2api be something that is interesting to me?
>
>  Well, if...
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>   1) your Java skills are stronger than your Ruby skills
>   2) you want ActionScript 3, rather than ActionScript 2
>   3) you want to generate, rather than parse AS3 code
>
>  ...then you should be looking at metaas, rather than trying to pick bits
>  out of as2api.  You are certainly welcome to use as2api code if you
>  want, but I've not done anything with the project in a looooong time
>  now.
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>  ta!
>  dave
>
>  --
>  http://david.holroyd.me.uk/
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