[antlr-interest] Re: Source-driven v. Target-driven xforms (was
Re: New article on StringTemplates and Treewalkers)
Andy Tripp
antlr at jazillian.com
Wed Jan 11 11:36:33 PST 2006
>
> Understandable, but as I mentioned in my other post, "rule" is
> ambiguous, so this terminology might be troublesome for people not so
> familiar with parsing or your approach. In ParserWorld, "rule" is
> commonly a synonym for "grammatical production" (which may have
> attached actions) (and it could be a tree grammar production), but in
> JazillionTown it means specifically a function that does a little
> parsing and then some actions. I think that will be confusing for
> your readers. Unfortunately I can't think of a better term at the
> moment.
>
> Howsabout "target-centered rule-driven" v. "source-centered
> tree-driven"? Oh boy! Acronyms: TCRD v. SCTD! ;)
>
> A Jazillion "rule" is analogous to an antlr "rule" turned inside out,
> and vice-versa, no?
Speaking of using the term "rule", I'm going to try to submit a paper
(maybe even this article or a variation) and give a talk at
the 7th International Workshop on Rule-Based Programming:
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/RULE06/
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