[antlr-interest] Re: can a tree grammar and the ANTLR toolkit be used to write genrative libraries
aaanwar
aaanwar at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 25 15:23:13 PDT 2003
Yes,
That is along the lines of what I was thinking if.
As ANTLR takes grammar definitions and churns or parsers I want to
take the same grammar definitions and churn out APIs that can be used
generate source in any given language.
I was surprised to find nothing readily available for this purpose
given the number of tasks machine generation of source code is
needed ... idl compilers, GUI builders, etc.
I would be interested in working on such a project. Let me know if
you think ANTLR should be extended in this fashion or a new project
needs to be started.
Arman.
--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at j...>
wrote:
>
> On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 05:20 PM, aaanwar wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > This is a refinement of an earlier question:
> >
> > What I really want to be abel to do is programatically generate
code
> > in say java.
> >
> > So I would like to do something like.
> >
> > CompilationUnit cu = new CompilationUnit();
> > cu.addClass("HelloWorld")
> > .addMethod( "main", PUBLIC | STATIC | , VOID);
> >
> > and so forth ...
>
> Hi...I have essentially what you want, but it's not ready to be
> released. :( You want a template like creature:
>
> method ::= <<
> <access> <returnType> <name>(<args:argumentDecl()>) {
> <slist:statement()>
> }
> >>
>
> I haven't figured out what to do with StringTemplate yet and I need
to
> make it work better for ANTLR stuff. Mainly used now to generate
web
> pages for jGUru and peerscope :)
>
> Ter
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