[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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