Re: [Oopic-compiler-devel] Compiler design

[Andrew P. <wa...@ic...>]

At 03:15 AM 5/12/2004 +0100, Neil Durant wrote:
>I think we'll be able to handle the original Savage C/BASIC/Java syntaxen
>using a preprocessor like Andy's, which would then output grammar which is
>compatible with our new compiler.

I would expect that you could handle the original syntax by taking your
definitions for C / BASIC / Java and just modifuing them a bit.  IOW, you
would have 6 languages to support.


>Of course, we should be trying to persuade people to switch to our more
>complete and standard syntax, but we should also aim to support the Savage
>"legacy" syntax... :-)

Agreed.


...Andy