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

[Anthony Williams <anthony.williamsNOSPAM@anthonyw.cjb.net>]

codeworker@free.fr (Cedric LEMAIRE) writes:

> 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]

> 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.

So, if you want to use CodeWorker to modify C++ code based on a set of rules,
you need a grammar for C++, which you don't supply :-(

I can see the benefit of this tool, in that it would allow you to use
Aspect-Orientated Programming in C++ by performing C++-to-C++ translations
based on a set of rules, but someone has to write the grammar first.

C++ is not an easy language to parse, so I don't fancy that job.

Anthony
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