Re: compiler and metadata, request opinions...

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:08:53 +0200

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:08:53 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-04-051 09-04-059 09-04-064
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 28 Apr 2009 05:11:01 EDT

cr88192 schrieb:


>> I'd use different frontends (parser...) for each language, each building
>> an canonical AST. Where "canonical" means that the AST is understood by
>> all following stages.
>
> writing 3 parsers would mean maintaining 3 parsers, which is unecessary
> since most of the syntax is common between the languages...


Parsers usually have to deal with semantics (for disambiguation...) as
well, in detail with context sensitive C-ish languages.


DoDi


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