[antlr-interest] soliciting language recipes book outline feedback

[Terence Parr]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Tom Smith wrote:

> In the section on Translation recipes, I would love to see an  
> outline of a multi-pass translator (e.g., to support semantic  
> checks).  IMHO, I've seen great support for grammars (in the book,  
> on this list, on the wiki), but there is much less material  
> addressing the overall structure of applications.

True, although we cannot go into too much detail without writing a  
different book.  I think each recipe should provide a nice outline of  
the procedure. Abstracting all of these procedures into a decision  
tree will be the subject of my textbook.

> As an example, after a lot of searching, I found a message from 2005  
> in the archive of this list that I have used as a model for a multi- 
> pass translator:
>
> http://www.antlr.org/pipermail/antlr-interest/2005-June/012788.html
>
> This, or more recent rethinking of such approaches, could be a great  
> help as a how-to entry.

Cool.  Added "Designing grammars for reuse." to the outline.

Ter
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