Re: [Oopic-compiler-devel] Compiler design

[Neil D. <nd...@us...>]

Andrew Porrett wrote:
> 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.

That would be the other way of doing it.  Ironically that would mean that
some of the grammar-checking rules for the Savage C language module would
have to spit out an error for certain perfectly legal C syntax... :-)

I say we go for our ideal standard C to begin with, almost as a proof of
concept.  Then once we're happy it's all working then the other 5 languages
(or more!) can be filled in.

Neil
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