Yeah - the thing is though, that you then don't really learn anything about what you are doing. Unless of course you write the translator in ANTLR first ;-)
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Loring Craymer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:05 AM > To: Jim Idle; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] BNF to ANTLR > > Actually, this is easier to do automatically. Any BNF dialect takes > about 2 pages for parser + lexer description of the BNF in ANTLR; it is > very easy to write a translator from one BNF dialect to another > (ANTLR). You will still have to rework the resulting grammar. > > --Loring > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Jim Idle <[email protected]> > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 8:05:12 AM > > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] BNF to ANTLR > > > > Much better to do it by hand. ANTLRs EBNF notation is close, but > remember that > > ANTLR is LL() and not LALR, which most bnf definitions from normative > specs are > > aimed at. Use ANTLRWorks and build slowly and you should pick it up > quite > > quickly if you understand BNF well. > > > > Jim > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:antlr-interest- > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Frey > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:33 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [antlr-interest] BNF to ANTLR > > > > > > Hi im quite new to ANTLR and compiler generation. > > > I have a grammer written in BNF and need to convert it > > > to the Format ANTLR supports. So ist there a better/quicker > > > solution than by doing it by hand? > > > > > > Cheers Stefan > > > > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > > > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr- > interest/your- > > > email-address > > > > > > > > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > > Unsubscribe: > > http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email- > address > > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
