On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:09:03 -0800, Noah Stein wrote: >I believe this is already under way. Juan Carlos Arevalo-Baeza (JCAB for >short) is currently in the middle of implementing a C++ parser. I believe >he even has error support already. If he's not active on Boost, I would >suggest looking for him over on the Spirit list.
:) Thanks, Noah. I don't usually follow Boost. Too much traffic for me to deal with. But Joel alerted me of this thread (thanx). On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:47:31 -0500, David Abrahams wrote: >>2. This is the biggie - how about writing a full-fledged C++ parser (with >>symbol tables!) in Spirit? Now that would be cool... > >That's a work-in-progress, AFAIK. Kinda. There's a first try, based on Hartmut's C grammar, which was doomed to fail. And then there's a fairly complete lexer (which just ignores directives) and a test that uses it for parsing names with scopes, including a first pass at a scope database with proper update and lookup semantic actions, so it can be used by the parser. >I think once you get a C++ parser >you'll probably discover it's not all that useful without something >which can represent the type system. That is absolutely correct. You need to have access to the current set of definitions (types, variables, functions, classes...) in order to parse C++ correctly. >And then you pretty much >implement the whole template machinery... well, I think you can guess >what kind of project that turns into. I still think it's doable. I'll keep working on it, off and on. At this rate, it should be ready in about... er... 5 to 10 years O:-) Salutaciones, JCAB email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 10913692 @WORK: 101728263 WWW: http://www.JCABs-Rumblings.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
