[antlr-interest] new book organization question

[Johannes Luber]

Dennis Benzinger schrieb:
> Am 20.08.2008 20:50, Terence Parr schrieb:
>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 11:48 PM, Dennis Benzinger wrote:
>>>> I. Introduction
>>>>  basic architectures, describe application categories,
>>>>  introduce language implementation ideas.
>>>>
>>>> II. Generators (before readers because it's easier to understand)
>>>>
>>>> III. Readers (parsing, introduces all of the intermediate data
>>>> structures too)
>>>> [...]
>>> I'd prefer to have the Readers part before the Generators part. You
>>> first have to parse something before you can generate something out of
>>> it.
>> Well,That was an interesting paradox I had to solve. basically, I  
>> realized that explaining how to print out "3.152e-13" is much easier  
>> than explaining how to recognize it properly. but, how can I talk  
>> about generators without talking about readers first. It turns out, we  
>> can do lots of things. The examples I chose include object to  
>> relational mapping (uses reflection) and a vector math to postscript  
>> translator that turns the printer into a vector math interpreter. At  
>> first, I have a set of handbuilt objects to represent operations. A  
>> GUI or something else could easily build these without resorting to a  
>> reader. Then I morph that into more of a standard tree structure and  
>> show how to use templates and so on to generate the appropriate  
>> postscript.
>>
>> Then when I do readers, it will start to fall into place. :) Do you  
>> think that will work?
> 
> As I'm the only one who complained I think it will work :)
> 
>>> And because you wrote that "each part will use techniques and
>>> patterns identified in the previous parts" I find it quite confusing  
>>> to
>>> have Readers after Generators.
>> Agreed if you look just at the table of contents. You think my  
>> approach will work as explained above?
>> [...]
> 
> Yes. And I'll just start reading the book at the Readers part.

Heretic! Ter's books have to be read from front to cover! :P

Johannes
> 
> 
> Bye,
> Dennis Benzinger
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