[antlr-interest] Any plans of next ANTLR Release

[Rick Mann]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 17:28:07, Terence Parr wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
>>> 0000:	split         9, 16, 29   // says 3 paths are possible
>>> 0009:	match8        'a'
>>> 0011:	match8        'b'
>>> 0013:	accept        4
>>> 0016:	range8        'a', 'z'
>>> 0019:	split         16, 26
>>> 0026:	accept        5
>>> 0029:	range8        '0', '9'
>>> 0032:	split         29, 39 // go back or fall out of loop into accept state
>>> 0039:	accept        6
>> 
>> This is a Java-only parser generator, then, isn't it?
> 
> Hi Rick. Nope. Those are bytecodes for a new VM that any target can implement in about 100 lines of support code :)  Those aren't java bytecodes :)

I realized that as soon as I started to read the paper you referenced, but your earlier email says, "…is only about 600 bytes of Java bytecodes…". Now I realize that's the implementation of the VM in Java, I think.

Still sounds harder to write back-ends, but the whole idea sure is cool.

-- 
Rick