[antlr-interest] AST writer
Monty Zukowski
monty at codetransform.com
Wed Jul 14 15:31:46 PDT 2004
Well, if you don't do "!" or "^" then you don't have a tree, you have a
list. Or actually a TokenStream.
See Ter's article http://www.antlr.org/article/rewrite.engine/index.tml
Monty
On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:44 PM, thrutchy wrote:
> Is there a way to write out an AST in the same format as it was parsed
> into the AST without having to write a tree-parser rule for each rule
> of the parser? To do this, I would assume you couldn't put in any
> "!"/"^" in the rules and the text can't be munged or ignored (i.e.
> whitespace/comments).
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> I would like to write a language munger that does this:
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> 1. Read language input into an AST
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> 2. Do manipulations to the AST (via a tree-walker or manually)
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> 3. Write the AST out in the same input language
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> I would prefer not to have to specify the language twice - once in the
> parser and once in the writer.
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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ANTLR & Java Consultant -- http://www.codetransform.com
ANSI C/GCC transformation toolkit --
http://www.codetransform.com/gcc.html
Embrace the Decay -- http://www.codetransform.com/EmbraceDecay.html
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