Re: Is C++ really used ?

Jocelyn Coulmance <jocelyn_coulmance@hol.fr> wrote:
|> You can easily produce an object-oriented parse tree out of BNF-like
|> syntax ...


Since my posting, it has been pointed out to me that one can perform a
recursive-descent parse using object-oriented techniques, provided one
is generating a parse-tree. One simply defines a class for each
nonterminal, then has the constructor for that class create the
appropriate node, and invoke the constructors for each of the subnodes
needed in the tree, based on the lookahead information.


The reason that I missed this technique was because neither of my
translator projects used a parse-tree as the intermediate form. One
project interpreted source directly, and another used three-address
code as the intermediate form for the translation.


I am grateful for those who pointed out the parse-tree method of designing
and object-oriented translator.


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