[antlr-interest] related master's thesis ideas...
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Mar 3 09:27:43 PST 2006
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> 1) Incremental parsing (specifically for not re-parsing an entire
> file, for
> example within an IDE). This could be interesting, both in theory
> and to try
> to make Antlr support this.
Prashant and I are going to be publishing a paper on this soon so I
would work on something else. ;)
> 2) Create a static code analysis tool, probably to handle C/C++
> code although
> if I used the right IR trees, it could probably easily be expanded
> to other
> languages fairly easily. This would probably also present the
> ability to
> create a mini-language of sorts, something that would allow you to
> create
> specific test cases that the programmer was interested in, with a
> certain
> standard set of featurs.
>
> 3) Something with Antlr-v3 and probably/hopefully Python ;),
> perhaps wrapping
> the C/C++ generated code so that it can be used as an extension
> module,
> assuming they were considerably faster than the regular Python one
> (only real
> reason to do such)?
Perhaps evaluating rewrite systems for v3 like
"int <ID> = <expr>;" -> "int <ID>;\n<ID> = <expr>;"
> PS: Ter, I hope your dvorak skills are coming along. I switched to
> dvorak
> about two and a half years ago (maybe three now) and I'm probably
> 20-40%
> faster than I was back then, and I was quite capable then. It's
> definitely
> worth it (although the efficiency takes a while to pick back up)!
> Keep at it
> and good luck!
thanks for the encouragement. I memorized the keyboard and one
point five hours but am having difficulty getting my efficiency up.
Are you able to use emacs with the new keyboard too?
Ter
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