[antlr-interest] ANTLR v4 planning stages

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Jan 19 16:33:20 PST 2010


On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Scott Stanchfield wrote:
>> i was thinking something like  arbitrary code in some simple imperative language and then any call to @foo() or whatever would call foo in the target language.
> 
> The thing I'd worry about would be feature creep in that language.
> Everyone would want "just one more feature" so it could better support
> their target language. You'd need to nail down that simple language so
> the generators for it could be written - if any new features were
> added all generators would be hit.

yeah, a real danger.

> ANTLRScript?  (shudder)

i like! good idea.

Ter


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