[antlr-interest]Stuff I like about ANTRL Re: stuff I don't like about ANTLR 2.x

[matthew ford]

    I like the Java base.
If it ANTLR was not basically in Java I would not be using it.
matthew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "edcjones" <edcjones at yahoo.com>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: [antlr-interest] Re: stuff I don't like about ANTLR 2.x


> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at c...>
> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > In preparation for the ANTLR 3.0 whitepaper, I need to start
> < writing down everything that annoys me about ANTLR 2.0.  I have 
> < started another "blog" document:
> > 
> > http://www.antlr.org/blog/antlr3/antlr2.bashing.tml
> > 
> > Feel free to send in your pet peeves to me or to this list.  I will 
> > try to add to this file.
> 
> Here are some unrealistic and inexpert ideas for ANTLR 3.
> 
> Rewrite ANTRL in C or C++.
> 
> Output parsers written in C or Python.
> 
> Print trees in an easy to look at form.
> 
> Is is necessary for the user to see as much java as he now has to?
> 
> An approach to the man-machine interface issues: if you were designing
> a Python (Perl, ...) module that wraps around ANTLR, what would be the
> classes and functions in the module?
> 
> A grammar is a highly terse description of a highly recursive stucture
> with little internal documentation and with bits of java in it like
> prions in a brain. Are there better ways to write down a grammar?
> 
> Should there be a separate chapter on ANTLR parsers in the Reference
> manual?
> 
> Non-interactive debugger. Ideally, there would be an interactive
> debugger where you see the tokens as they are fed to the parser and
> also see the changes that are made in tha AST.
> 
> 
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