[antlr-interest] Re: stuff I don't like about ANTLR 2.x
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Sun Mar 14 14:48:46 PST 2004
On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:59 PM, lgcraymer wrote:
> You just don't understand (said in a tone of absolute innocence). C++
> _was_ a portable language--and then they "standardized" it. The
<snicker>
> problem is that the standards committee re-invented the
> language--standard C++ depends heavily on templates--rather than
> standardizing and tweaking common practice.
>
> But, "don't worry, be happy". Java generics are coming! I sure hope
Ewwww. I'm not sure I like the idea. Like the concept (even in C++)
but I don't like what it does to my language :)
> that Sun has learned from the C++ lessons and devised some sort of
> reflection support so that debuggers behave decently.
It shall be better, but the boxing / unboxing stuff will cause some
trouble...over private email, somebody just sent me an example where a
hashtable<string,string> gets messed up because table.put(1,3) converts
the ints to Integers and doesn't complain.
Anyhoo...not sure I like the complexity :)
Ter
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