[antlr-interest] Re: how useful would a generic grammar "action" language be?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Oct 28 09:58:16 PST 2003


On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Arnar Birgisson wrote:
>
> How would the user clarify to ANTLR whether he/she is writing their
> actions in the target language, or the abstract action language?

Good point...perhaps options

language="Cpp"; // generate C++
actions="Cpp"; // accept C++ actions

> Having grammars with actions and all (even just the simple ones) would
> be very cool, and it would help out alot when people distribute 
> grammars
> and/or use grammars from others. But if the implementation of this 
> would
> mean alot of work, is it worth it?

I'll let you know when I get to it ;)

Ter
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