Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Extension to geyacc

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

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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