Please don't lock thing to Eclipse. Eclipse is a tough thing to learn fro non-developers like me. I would rather stick to my plain text editor to edit rules and check them from the command line.
Ruud On 30-12-12 23:01, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Just my 2c... > > IMHO there's no gain (aside from the editor problem, but that seems more > easily solved switching editor!) in obfuscating the code by keeping the > same xml-like structure and shrinking the tags. > > If You want to really gain something we could design a suitable DSL and > implement it. > I recently did that for a customer using Eclipse Xtext. > I'm pretty sure we could come up with something in a very reasonable > amount of time. > This would lock us to eclipse, but you would get a > syntax-highlighting/error-checking editor almost for free and it would > be possible to automatically generate code from the rules, thus doing a > kind of compilation as opposed to current interpretation of the rules. > > Since rules effectively are productions something like BNF could be more > straightforward, but there I would ask to people with more experience in > rule-writing. > As a newbie I can tell You I have a lot of difficulties forcing myself > thinking xml while the task at hand is production-oriented, but that > might well be my limit. > I am available to help, if You decide to try this way. > First step would be to decide the grammar of the new DSL. > > Regards > Mauro > > > On 30/12/2012 22:34, Daniel Naber wrote: >> On 30.12.2012, 22:15:22 Marcin Milkowski wrote: >> >>> What is the problem you are trying to solve? >> Indeed my editor cannot properly edit the files anymore. But the redundancy >> also makes rules harder to read and to write (I guess most people copy >> existing rules to create new ones though). >> >>> adding exceptions would be a nightmare in the new syntax scheme. >> I wouldn't do that, that syntax variant would only apply for simple rules >> that don't need exceptions. >> >> Regards >> Daniel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 > _______________________________________________ > Languagetool-devel mailing list > Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
