[antlr-interest] Re: Seperating Grammar and Actions..

[John D. Mitchell]

Administrivia: Is it possible to fix your mail program to do the quoting
correctly?  Currently, I have to go through and fix the quoting of your
posts so that my replies will correctly quote.  Thanks!

>>>>> "micheal" == micheal jor <open zone at virgin net> <open.zone at virgin.net> writes:

[...]

>> Well, um, er, are you wanting to use it as a human language or as a
>> language that is used as an IR so that you can do transformations to it
>> and still generate valid C code (so you can piggy-back off of the C
>> compilers for basic optimization and code generation)?

> Well, somewhere in between I guess. It's source-to-source translation and
> the resulting files would be read and edited by people. If it's anything
> like [some of] the CIL transforms, it seems readability would be
> seriously impaired.

As Monty noted, CIL isn't geared towards a "flat"/"equal" source-to-source
translation.  CIL is more geared towards more of a one-way, source to
annotated & augmented source.

One way to look at the difference is whether or not people are going to
have to eventually, manually maintain the generated, output source code or
not.

Hope this helps,
		John

 

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