Great news Jesper! Please keep us updated on your progress, and if you need any help, don't hesitate. Indeed the first milestone is to get a working environment, and the second one to be able to have the same scope as the current parser, ideally generating the same AST (but perhaps there might be areas where we might think some updates are needed) For the third milestone, that would be discussing and progressivly adding the Java 8 related construct we want to support or not in Groovy 3.
Guillaume On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Jesper Steen Møller <jes...@selskabet.org> wrote: > Hi list > > On 31.01.2016 21:29, Thibault Kruse wrote: > > > Are Antlr 4 and Jva 8 syntax linked somethow, meaning is there a hard > > problem describing certain java8 features using whatever antlr version > > is used right now? > > I’ve decided to give the Antlr4 task another go. > I had some major trouble getting a reasonable development setup (even with > IntelliJ), but now it seems I can actually get the ball rolling with a > reasonable unit test turnaround time (again using Eclipse and a slightly > patched Groovy-Eclipse compiler). > > I guess the next milestone is to ensure that the parser derives the same > AST’s as the Antlr2 parser, but before that there are some constructs I > know aren’t behaving correctly. > > -Jesper -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer & PMC member Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
