[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0 tree construction proposal

[John D. Mitchell]

>>>>> "Loring" == Loring Craymer <Loring.G.Craymer at jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
>>>>>> At 09:29 AM 2/2/2005, John D. Mitchell wrote:
[...]

>> Hmm... But that presumes a constructivist approach.  I.e., one would
>> have to create the phases in order so that this automated tree grammar
>> would be constructed.  Sometimes, it's much better to e.g., work
>> backwards from the tree that you want and then determine the (sequence
>> of) transformations to make that.

> So you sketch backward and then implement forward.  The key is that
> automatic tree generation makes the implement forward phase very fast (I
> did tree transformation development for a pretty complete expression
> grammar in about 2 hours).

Cool.

However, what about the cases where you've already built the system and now
are going around tweaking it?

Thanks,
	John