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

[Terence Parr]

On Mar 13, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> I use ANTLR to generate C++. For some time, my major complaint about 
> the
> C++ part of ANTLR has been that the support library seems to be poorly
> factored. For instance, I don't use ANTLR's AST support. But because of
> the rather monolithic nature of the support library, there seems to be
> no way to keep from pulling in all the support library's AST machinery
> when linking.

The issue could be that C++ / C header files are a poor mechanism in 
general for factoring stuff due to very coarse granularity of 
dependencies.  Can you suggest some factoring tips?

[Side note from an anti-C++ bigot: I can't believe people don't 
complain about the complete lack of portability of C++.  Never once 
have I heard people say that the Java code won't compile somewhere 
(course the build process is a different story perhaps<wink>).  It is 
truly astounding that nearly 20 years after the first lecture I heard 
on C++, we still don't have a portable language.  Stroustroup (SP?) is 
coming to USF to speak soon...I'll try to leave my heavier projectiles 
at home.] ;) :D  Just my opinion folks ;)

> That's my number one beef. The other thing I ran into is that it was
> *way* too difficult to convince ANTLR to generate the parser in an
> unnamed namespace. The C++ code generator is more or less hard-wired to
> generate code that will be available to multiple translation units; but
> I don't want that. Fortunately, I was able to trick ANTLR into doing
> what I want.

Hooray!

> Considering those are my major complaints, it seems I've been pretty
> happy with ANTLR. :-)

Yeah!  Thanks, Braden...

Ter
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