[antlr-interest] Variants of a grammar

[Jim Idle]

Use the import feature to include grammars in more than one file.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Marcel Schaible
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:14 PM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Variants of a grammar
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently reworking some old big YACC grammar files. Each of them
> (about 15 different YACC files with 5kB to 80Kb size) are describing a
> command language for a specific hardware device and share a lot of
> common rules. Now I was wondering if it is feasable to do some kind of
> object-oriented approach like put all shared rules in some kind of a
> base class and all the special command and command derivations in a
> derived class.  Another idea I am thinking of is using StringTemplate
> to
> generate the YACC grammar files.
> 
> Maybe one of you stumbled over a similar problem and has a nice
> solution
> and could push me in the rigth direction?
> 
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts in advance!
> 
> Marcel
> 
> List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest
> Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-
> email-address