Derek, On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Derek Fawcus < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:09:15pm -0400, Gregory Casamento wrote: > > > > I have been looking into this language for the last few days. I haven't > > had a chance to play with it yet, but I have read the technical reference > > on it (available as a free ebook from Apple, complete with the BNF > grammar > > in the back). > > I suspect that the language is (to some extent) still in flux, and that > one might as well wait until Autumn (when OSX 10.10) is supposed to release > before expending too much effort. i.e. see if once Swift becomes > 'hardened' > Apple release the LLVM front end source. > I'm not holding my breath for this. I HOPE they release it, but I sincerely don't think they will. Then again, I have to ask myself if they didn't have the intention of releasing it why would they release the grammar? > However, there is no harm in generating a parser for the language, > and it may be independently useful. From the quick glance I've had > through the book, I suspect a parser shouldn't be too hard. > A parser should be pretty easy, in fact. Given that the grammar is given in pretty clear BNF it should be something that is easy to use to create a parser for the language for any given popular grammar generator from flex/lex/antlr to any others. > .pdf Greg -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
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