[antlr-interest] Mantra language overhaul / reimplementation

[Sohail Somani]

On 22/09/07 04:58 PM, Terence Parr wrote:

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> Naturally a lint like program could give you some information like
> what they static compiler would give you.
>

I think such a tool would be very instructive. Find those graduate
students! :-)
> I'm adding a few more optimizations and hoping to get a graduate
> student involved in building up  the runtime library. Usually the
> library methods are simply things veneers over the Java libraries,
> they'll help to clean them up quite a bit.  Soon I should be ready to
> release something.   The translator is remarkably small.
>
> What you think of the syntax?
>

I'm hardly qualified to give my opinion but since you asked (!) the list
filters are pretty awesome and the pipes are a clever chaining mechanism.

However, seeing as I am currently in Lisp mode, I must ask: Where are
the macros? Think of the children!

Sohail

PS: Hope your hands feel better!