On 3/23/11 11:42 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:
Sorry for the late reply,
even tough I'm not an ANTLR expert, given my previous experience with the tool
and having read most of the official book, I could help more on this GSOC
idea.
I have looked at http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list and on google and I could not
find any recent ANTLR grammar for D.
In my opinion this project could be a good contribution for the D community
while being practical and useful in the short term.
There are two aspects: writing an ANTLR grammar that parses D (which you
are referring to) and also adding to ANTLR the capability of generating
D. The latter would allow D users to create and use parsers for various
languages. It would also require close cooperation with the ANTLR people
for acceptance etc.
(Sticking with the former project for now.) This is a technically
interesting project. I'd need to hear more about the high-level
motivation. What is the "business" motivation? There is already a parser
for D written in C++ (the open-source front-end of dmd), so the project
would need to build a good case for the added value. Also there are
other D parser projects that people work on (ddmd comes to mind), so I'd
need to hear a lot more in the way of justifying the utility of such a
project.
Thanks,
Andrei
