John~

Thanks for the information.  I did the same thing and have switched to using
janino and just wanted to see what other people do.

Matt

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:23 AM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Matt Fowles <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Given that you are generating code, do you generate java directly or
> > generate an AST?
>
> From an AST, I suppose is the right answer.  But it's a Lisp-family
> language, so the surface syntax is already a tree -- I just keep
> transforming the tree until its semantics are those of Java.
>
> > If you generate an AST, do you unparse that into java and run javac on it
> or
> > do you generate bytecode directly from it?
>
> I generate Java from it.  Javac is certainly appropriate, though one
> could use gcj or janino, too.  (No generics in the generated code.)
>
> > If you generate bytecode directly from it, what library or libraries do
> you
> > use?
>
> N/A
>
> --
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>
> >
>

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