Re: [tcljava-dev] Parsing Jacl

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Fri,  4 Mar 2005 13:28:58 -0500
vm...@en... wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to both this mailing list as well as Tcl. I'm supposed to parse Jacl 
> in order to convert it to Jython. After much effort, I came across tclparser 
> extension to Tcl. However, I'm not sure if tclparser will be able to parse 
> Jacl as well.

Funny you should mention this now, I just started on a project to do something
very much the same except that I am going to parse Jacl and write out .java
source code.

> Like I said, I'm new to even Tcl. I don't know how it works or how to make 
> even the tclparser work. But, before I start to invest time in learning that, 
> I want to make sure that it serves my purpose .i.e parsing Jacl. Will it parse 
> Jacl inaccurately or will it hang altogether? 

Jacl is Tcl, so the tclparser extension should work with it just fine. I am going
to be doing just this sort of thing in my project.

> If tclparser does not do the job, what is the best way to go about parsing 
> Jacl? Is it possible to extend the tclparser to do that? Or, is there a Jacl 
> tool similar to tclparser? Or, is it possible the access the jacl parser 
> (maybe by picking the right fragments of the jacl source code and then 
> building them)?

Well, tclparser is a C extension for the C version of Tcl. That is fine in my
case, but keep in mind that you will not be able to run tclparser inside Jacl.
Jacl does not support C extensions for Tcl. I hope that clears things up.

cheers
Mo DeJong