Simon Hudon wrote:
> Dear M. Bezault,
>
> I am currently considering the development of a compiler generator
> toolkit for Eiffel a little like Cocktail
> (http://www.cocolab.com/en/cocktail.html
> <http://www.cocolab.com/en/cocktail.html>) and thought it may be
> interesting to integrate it in the gobo package.
>
> I would use geyacc as a basis for lalr(1) parsers (which may be the only
> kind I'd cover) and I plan to cover abstract grammars and attribute
> grammars. I may include some type system description utilities also.
> The main interest in such a tool would be to exclude any target language
> code in the specifications to allow the creation of different back ends
> for different target languages. I think this exclusion may also allow
> more modular descriptions.
>
> I plan to use this project as a basis for some research on compiler
> synthesis.
>
> In short, I was wondering if there is any interest on your part to
> include such a toolkit in your gobo package and if there was any work in
> that direction done on gobo or any plan to do any.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Simon Hudon
This could be interesting indeed to extend geyacc in such a way.
As far as I know there is no work in that direction in Gobo.
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Eric Bezault
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