Thursday, September 21, 2000, Daniel L. Rall hath spoken:
>> We can definitely make translators later. It's
>> not impossible to maintain multiple syntaxes
>> but it is becoming tedious because there's
>> no built in support. It will probably become
>> a maintenance problem. Maybe Antlr is better
>> at this.
> I've always been in favor of a single syntax. +1
+1 for single syntax.
[Also, to handle multiple syntaxes, you can either put semantic
predicates into the grammar (less flexible/separable) or build a
common intermediate form (i.e., tree) that a single tree-parser /
engine handles.]
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