Re: [ANN] an EBNF parser and coding pattern tool (LGPL)

[codeworker@free.fr (Cedric LEMAIRE)]

apm35@student.open.ac.uk (apm) wrote in message news:<clcm-20030124-0006@plethora.net>...
> codeworker@free.fr (Cedric LEMAIRE) wrote in message news:<clcm-20030123-0008@plethora.net>...
> > The software doesn't care of parochialism about languages and can
> > generate JAVA code as well as C++ or ADA or LaTeX or your own output
> > file, whatever it is.
> > Generic programming and implementation of coding patterns become very
> [snip]
> Does this mean it can be used to implement a program that can add and
> remove Hungarian warts? This would enable programmers that don't speak
> Hungarian to observe corporate standards but still work with
> maintainable code.

Exactly. This program will be a script interpreted by 'CodeWorker', or
be a C++ program generated from the script automatically.
The way to do it is to use the 'source-to-source translation'
functionality of the software (an parse tree isn't necessary to
process the language-to-same-language transformation).

You must write the Extended BNF of the language you use (I don't
propose EBNF for languages yet) and to redefine some clauses
(identifier of a variable that is being declared, lambda-expression,
method identifier) to apply/remove the Hungary Notation on it.

Just a little detail: today, the source-to-source translation supposes
that the formats of the input and the output are different. So, you
must write explicitely the output. In the case of a source
transformation (your case), the imput should be implicitely copied to
the output, except when a special transformation must be processed
(change of variable names).
So, I'll improve the 'source-to-source translation' to process a
source transformation in a more convenient way. It will be available
before the end of the week, except if you are on a hurry!

About EBNF, I don't know what is your targeted language, but I'll be
interested in your contribution. And if you need help to write this
EBNF, do not hesitate to email me.
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Cedric Lemaire
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