[antlr-interest] C# TARGET ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Terence Parr]

Please use:

http://www.antlr.org/download/build/antlr-2008-04-09.10.tar.gz

for C#. minor bug fix.
Ter
On Apr 8, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Terence Parr wrote:

> New build is http://www.antlr.org/download/build/antlr-2008-04-08.17.tar.gz 
>  which includes Johannes' C# updates.
> Ter
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Johannes Luber wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> It's time to give you all an update how the C# target will evolve to.
>>
>> The general direction is that I will phase out support for C# 1.0  
>> for ANTLR 3.3, if nothing major comes up (meaning that a user can't  
>> update to .NET 2). I want to split the runtime library into two, so  
>> I can use generics and other stuff.
>>
>> Because of these major changes, I want to have at least one minor  
>> ANTLR version as a testbed. As I didn't find the time to do those  
>> changes for 3.1, the testbed will be 3.2. The reason for this early  
>> announcement is that a bugfix requires the use of a C# 2.0 feature.
>>
>> If you want to use a non-intrinsic value type then you have to use  
>> the new target CSharp2 or to change the template yourself (for all  
>> installations). While the runtime library will work for both  
>> targets, if you want to (and can) futureproof your application then  
>> change the target as soon as possible.
>>
>> I'm also happy to release the beta 1 for the 3.1 C# target: It is  
>> synced with the latest Java changes and compiles all example  
>> grammars successfully. While the changes have been checked in,  
>> there may no intermediate build available yet which includes the  
>> changes. This depends on Ter.
>>
>> Changes include:
>>
>> - Following Java target evolution.
>>
>> - Changed lowercase signatures into uppercase so the runtime  
>> conforms more to C# conventions. For example, $a.tree in grammar,  
>> but a.Tree in code. $-syntax is not affected although the  
>> exceptions compared to Java target will be probably removed (if I  
>> find the source that is). See for  further info on that issue the  
>> wiki. Changes in runtime library may have broken things beyond  
>> simply renaming and converting references.
>>
>> - Broke the IToken dependency for Token, as this didn't make any  
>> sense compared to the Java target. If you derive your class from  
>> Token or use Token as Type, please change that into IToken.
>>
>> - Bug fixes.
>>
>> - No binaries for .Net 1.1 created yet. It is on my todo list.
>>
>> Please send bug reports to this list. In case I've been notified of  
>> this bug already please refrain from reposting until beta 2. I am  
>> still working on those and if I've lost one you will find it out  
>> soon enough.
>>
>> Johannes
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