Re: [Jflex-devel] Google Summer-of-code 2019

[Régis D. <re...@go...>]

Le mar. 23 oct. 2018 à 00:28, Gerwin Klein <ge...@do...> a écrit :

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>  * revamp syntax: would also benefit from AST. We’d have to keep support
> for the old syntax to not break all lexer specs out there, but it would be
> nice to have something much cleaner. Come to think of it, I did have a
> front-end tool for jflex and cup, plus AST generator many years ago
> (1999ish) with much cleaner syntax, somewhat inspired by ANTLR, but
> realised differently (sample file attached). It basically generated jflex
> and cup files and a bunch of classes to represent syntax trees. Could be a
> starting point for that project.
>

Thanks for sharing. This looks like Yaml. So I gave it a try and there are
some thigs to work around but a JFlex spec in Yaml could look like this:
https://gist.github.com/regisd/8fe843800f96177909b190b678ca8637

Have a good weekend

>
> Cheers,
> Gerwin
>
>
>
> > On 19.10.2018, at 07:15, Régis Décamps via Jflex-devel <
> jfl...@li...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Gerwin,
> >
> > How do you feel about making a proposal for a summer of code project
> (hence for next summer, but applications will be until Jan 2019 I assume).
> >
> > The idea of summer of code (g.co/gsoc) is to offer students an
> opportunity to contribute to an open-source project for 3 months and even
> get paid by Google in return.
> >
> > I think we could offer a very nice project, for instance:
> >       • refactor the code to have an AST. Stretch: produce code from
> this AST, rather than with println()
> >       • support antlr
> >       • have our own parser generator
> >       • revamp the syntax of the lexer specification.
> > Any other idea? For instance, those were the proposals for gRPC or
> proposal for a compiler in open-chemistry
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
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