[antlr-interest] Fig: a generic config file reader

[robermann]

Hi, I've just added a comment in
http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Fig+-+Generic+configuration+language+interpreter
.

Basically I think the parser, to be really FIG (see the PS :)) should return
a Map object, not a List:

Map config_objects = parserFigo.file();

instead of a List:

List config_objects = parserFigo.file();

What do you think?

PS: Italian word "figo!" means something like your "cool!" :) I think you
know it Terence :D

On 6/19/07, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For my talk tomorrow, I built a simple example that I will go over:
>
> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Fig+-+Generic+configuration
> +language+interpreter
>
> Intro:
> Many applications need configuration files. In the old days people
> built their own syntax and parser. Then people tried to use simple
> property files with Java. Now people use XML for everything, but XML
> is a horrible Human interface (see "Humans should not have to grok
> XML"); XML is fine for data if you don't mind the verboseness. This
> article describes Fig, a little config file reader that I made for my
> talk at the Sydney Java users group June 20, 2007. The basic goal is
> to allow an application to include the fig.jar and then use the Fig
> parser to suck in files, the result of which is a list of objects.
> Fig supports strings, ints, lists, and references to other
> configuration objects. Fig uses reflection to create instances and
> call setters or set fields directly (if no setter exists).
>
> Ter
>



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