[Jsdsi-devel] JSDSI plans

[Sameer A. <aj...@cs...>]

Hi guys,

I have a couple of things I'd like to consider for JSDSI:

1) I've checked out the Eclipse IDE, and I really like it.  What do you
guys think of making JSDSI an Eclipse project?  I realize Sean's code uses
Maven, so I don't know what sort of problems this might cause for that. 
Sean: could we develop the core of JSDSI using Eclipse, and export it as a
JAR for your purposes?

2) I want to replace all of JSDSI's hand-written parsing and unparsing
code (jsdsi.sexp, and the toSexp() methods in each jsdsi.Obj subclass)
with something based on an actual grammar.  I really like Parsing
Expression Grammars (http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/), and a
group at NYU has recently created a PEG parser generator for Java called
Rats(http://www.cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/xtc/rats.html).  PEGs are faster and
clearer than CFGs, and Rats has a clean, straightforward syntax.  I don't
have much time to work on this (trying to graduate with my PhD), but I'll
probably hack on a JSDSI PEG when I get a chance.

Let me know what you think,
Sameer

http://ajmani.net