[antlr-interest] Inputs for grammar composition
Tim Tautges
tautges at engr.wisc.edu
Fri Jul 11 07:39:44 PDT 2008
Hi all,
I'm investigating creating a domain-specific language (for working
with mesh-based data for scientific computing). Ideally this language
would include both domain-specific stuff, as well as pre-packaged sets
of rules for common sets of operations, e.g. arithmetic or set-theoretic
expressions. This looks a lot like what Terrance Parr describes in his
article on grammar reuse, where in his terms, I'm "cobbling together" my
domain-specific grammar from these pieces. So, question is, are there
any repositories of these small sets of operations? (I think of them as
sub-grammars, though this term is used differently in Parr's article.)
The grammars listed on the ANTLR web site all seem to be much
higher-level. I suspect I could find most of what I needed by cutting
and pasting out of one or more of those, but a finer-grained packaging
of these sets would be easier (read Parr's article, which IMO describes
the benefits pretty clearly).
- tim
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