[antlr-interest] Writing Delphi Target for Antlr3

[service]

no, Delphi does not allow such syntax.

best regards
Chin Shou

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com>
>  Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Writing Delphi Target for Antlr3
>  Sent: 26 May '07 20:06
>  
>  It would be a weak compiler these days that did not analyze these
>  variables and their usage at compile time and construct the most
>  efficient stack it can, so I would not worry about that (at least not to
>  get things going). Your approach should be to get the .stg file
>  generating syntactically correct code, to the point that when you
>  compile it, the 'liker' tells you that you are missing the runtime
>  functions you have not written yet. I am thinking of producing a C-lite
>  output, which does not require runtime and that might help new template
>  authors.
>  
>  What you are looking for here, as I think you have realized is the
>  equivalent of this in C:
>  
>  {
>  int x;
>  {
>  int y;
>  }
>  }
>  
>  It's been some time since even looked at a Pascal program, but does it
>  allow:
>  
>  var
>    x: Integer;
>    begin
>  var
>    y: Integer;
>  begin
>  ...
>  end
>    end
>  
>   
>  
>  Jim
>  
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
>  > bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Luke A. Guest
>  > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:08 PM
>  > To: Terence Parr
>  > Cc: ANTR Interest
>  > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Writing Delphi Target for Antlr3
>  >
>  > On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 11:51 -0700, Terence Parr wrote:
>  > > On May 26, 2007, at 12:37 AM, service wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > Dear Friends
>  > > >
>  > > >       I am now writing Delphi Target for  Antlr 3 . now I
>  encounter
>  > > > a problem .Delphi unlike the other language (Java, C#, etc). it
>  can
>  > > > not declare one variable at function body.
>  > >
>  > > At the rule level I do not provide a list of all nested blocks.  I
>  > > could add this, but as others have suggested, I think the easiest
>  > > answer is to try to get Delphi to declare things within the method.
>  >
>  > Although, having to dump out an extra block isn't the best way,
>  depends
>  > on how the compiler handles it, i.e. extending the stack, which is
>  > adding overhead.
>  >
>  > Luke.
>  >
>  
>