[antlr-interest] ST 4.0 planning

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Mon Sep 8 11:31:32 PDT 2008


On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Arnulf Heller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> that sounds great! I strongly prefer static code over dynamic data
> structures and look forward to C++ string templates.

Roman (on the ST list)Said that the RTTI C++ would not be enough...  
anyway, without types in ST we would need reflection of some kind for C 
++.

> There is another point that makes static code a better choice:
> deployment. Its easier to compile and link the string template code
> as opposed to deploying group files, runtime environment, etc

True.

> I understand that from web page design it is quite desireable to
> change string templates on the fly, but we don't need this ability
> (so we don't need on the fly compilation as well)

Yeah, I don't really need either but the web people do for sure.

Ter


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