Ok...I added a description Eliot send me. You can check if you want.

Cheers

Mariano

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Gilad Bracha <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Javier Pimás 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi! Recently I discovered that there is a parser project called SmaCC. I
>> don't know if it works, but I think it includes parsers for C, Java and
>> Smalltalk, do you know/did you try it?
>>
>
> Thanks, but no thanks :-)
>
> I know SmaCC exists, but I never use parser generators. In Newspeak we use
> parser combinators, which is a much nicer approach. There is a Smalltalk
> version of the parser combinator library as well as a Newspeak one.
> Making parsers is easy if you have the correct grammar.
>
> There is of course something to be said for a ready made parser if it
> exists - but you have to be confident it is correct, and you become
> dependent on the framework it uses.
>
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>            Javier.
>>
>> 2010/3/11 John M McIntosh <[email protected]>
>>
>>>  Ah, well I can also help eliot on this, sometimes he gets too busy...
>>> plus I want to ensure the objective-c binding happens.
>>>
>>> On 2010-03-11, at 11:26 AM, Gilad Bracha wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Mariano,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure you mean to list Eliot as the co-mentor or mentor on this
>>> one.  If anyone got stuck and asked my help, I would end up bugging Eliot
>>> anyway.  And he did agree.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tomorrow morning we will be submitting...so, for this project, we only
>>>> have this proposal:
>>>>
>>>> Work on a cross-dialect foreign function call interface and implement it
>>>> in at least two dialects.  Candidates include Alien and GNU Smalltalk's
>>>> CObject (using existing implementation has the advantage of having to
>>>> implement in only _one_ other dialect!).  Bonus points for implementing a C
>>>> parser that would be able to construct bindings.  GNU Smalltalk already
>>>> contains a C preprocessor implementation.
>>>> There is some support for parsing C headers in the Newspeak system.
>>>> Aliens have been ported to Strongtalk as well as Squeak.
>>>>
>>>> The mentor will be John McIntosh and Gilad Brancha co-mentor.
>>>>
>>>> Can this proposal be more complete and have similar structure to the
>>>> rest ?  If true, send me the proposal.
>>>>
>>>> Check http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas.html
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Mariano
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers, Gilad
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Javier Pimás
>> Ciudad de Buenos Aires
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Gilad
>
>
>
>
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