Re: Object-oriented compiler construction: ideas?

Oliver Plohmann <op@esec.ch> writes:
|I thought you could
|alternatively make up the parse tree of objects, like Statement,
|ConditionalBlock, Loop, etc.
...
|Does anybody know whether that kind of techiques are being applied
|meanwhile? Wat do you think about it? Bogus or not ?


Check out cppp (http://ftp.cs.brown.edu/software/catalog.html).
It applies OO to everything: scanning, parse tree construction,
semantic analysis, tree traversal, etc. Totally reusable and
customizable. The full implementation parses C++, but the
clearly separated core can be retargeted in an OO way to any
grammar. Requires lex and yacc under the hood.


--

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.