[antlr-interest] Targeting different runtimes with the same grammar

[Matthew M. Burke]

On 09/05/2009, at 7:59, Chris Lambrou <chris at lambrou.net> wrote:

>
> Is there a recommended way of writing a grammar so that it can be used 
> to target different runtimes?  I'd like to be able to use the same 
> grammar to target both C# (for use in an ASP.NET server application) 
> and in JavaScript (for use by clients). The ANTLR book is filled with 
> examples of how useful it can be to embed Java code within the 
> grammar, but this couples the grammar to a specific runtime, which is 
> something I'm explicitly trying to avoid.
I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not sure if it will turn out to be 
awkward in practice, but you could "pre-process" the grammar files with 
StringTemplate to insert the appropriate, language-specific code.

Matt