Re[1]: [CEDET-devel] summary of semantic

[Eric M. L. <er...@si...>]

That is a great summary.  I have a couple additions/questions below.
You can ignore them if they are "too much detail" for the audience
you are targeting.

>>> "Richard Y. Kim" <ry...@ds...> seems to think that:
>Eric and David,
>
>The following summarizes my understanding of the benefits of
>semantic. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. If I'm on the right
>track, I would use something like this in an introductory chapter
>of the semantic manual to give the reader an overview of semantic.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The following diagram illustrates the benefits of using semantic:
>
>* Semantic parses a language (for which a parser is available) and
>  produces a common parse tree regardless of the original source
>  language.

I tend to think of the "parse tree" as "tags", though "parse tree"
sounds cooler and more technical.

>* Semantic provides a common API based on which applications can be
>  written in a language independent way.  This means that the
>  application will work for ALL languages for which a semantic parser
>  can be witten.
>
>* Semantic provids good set of tools and examples for the appplication
>  writers.
>
>* Semantic also provies extensive tools for the parser developers as well.
>  For many languages, those that can be described using a context-free
>  grammer, all that one needs to do is write a grammar file along with
>  appropriate semantic rules.

Didn't you take python's YACC file and port it?  This would be useful
to mention here.

With wisent, you can aso:

* Create language translations (see calc-wy.wy)

And possibly too much detail:

* semantic provides an API for parsing `local context' (see
  semantic-ctxt.el) for intellisense and completion.

Thanks!
Eric

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