[antlr-interest] Rule automation

Sam Barnett-Cormack s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Sep 9 07:23:04 PDT 2009


Vaclav Barta wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 11:24:06 Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>> Rule templatisation might be a funky feature to be added, but it doesn't
>> exist at present, AFAIK.
> I suppose most users of such capabilities would want to make their own syntax 
> (and semantics) anyway, IOW an ANTLR grammar preprocessor - in ANTLR, of 
> course... :-)

Nah, true built-in templatisation would be more useful, I reckon. Could 
potentially be quite clever (recursion, chaining of templates, etc). 
Even providing a standard set of templates covering common examples. 
Could even allow template libraries.

-- 
Sam Barnett-Cormack


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