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Re: About Examples



If anybody wants to contribute additional examples, documentation,
tutorials, ... I can add links to them from the SableCC home page, or even
include some of them in the official distribution.

The origin of contributions will be identified as clearly as possible to you
and/or your organization.

Thanks in advance:-)

Etienne


-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Park <jack@resource-optimizer.com>
To: sablecc-list@sable.mcgill.ca <sablecc-list@sable.mcgill.ca>
Date: October 01, 1998 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: About Examples


>Alberto's concerns struck me as important.  Andrew's response mirrors my
>own behavior in this matter.  Reading the thesis over again make sense.
>I built the minibasic, which does nearly everything I want, and learned a
>lot from that.
>
>However, some kind of tutorial on writing grammars for SableCC would be
>useful.  My old copy of Aho & Ulhman just doesn't get it for me. Is there
>anyone out there who could create such a document with examples?
>
>Jack Park
>
>At 03:02 PM 10/1/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> I think I felt the same at first, but I found that if I
>> played with the program on a small test grammar with just
>> a few different commands I learnt quite quickly just by
>> trial and error (also, even the most complicated examples
>> have the simple bits in there too - just ignore nearly
>> everything! :-).  It helped when I understood that the
>> error message told me the line and character of the problem
>> in the grammar!
>>
>> Once you get going, the long examples are useful for showing
>> how different parts of a language can be understood - I
>> wouldn't want them to be shorter, personally.
>>
>> One other thing that I found helped was reading the thesis
>> *again*.  I thought I'd understood most things after reading
>> it once or twice, but after using it for a while and asking
>> some questions here I went back and looked again and learnt
>> a lot more.
>>
>> I don't know if any of this is any help - it's just how I
>> learnt to use it (so far).
>>
>> It's a pity that there aren't more examples of how to use
>> SableCC on the web.  Maybe in time....
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>At 09:09 AM 10/1/98 +0200, you wrote:
>>>I think SableCC is the clearest & simplest to use CC I ever seen
>>>(I am not a specialist in grammar theory but I need sometime to
>>>define some very simple special purpose grammar)
>>> but
>>>
>>> "nobody's perfect"
>>>
>>>I think that the examples in the package are very interesting but too
>>>long and detailed. It should be better  if you would add more little
>>>but not trivial examples. It is by means of these kind of examples that
the
>>>understanding of every  subject in every scientific (and not only) field
>>>can became greater.
>>>Hi
>>>alberto
>>>
>>