Re: CSharp backend

[Etienne Gagnon <etienne.gagnon@uqam.ca>]

Hi Rubio,

A student of mine is currently implementing a new back-end to SableCC to allow
it generate output for various languages easily without having to modify SableCC
anymore to target a new language.

He should be done with the implementation before the end of this term.  He would
probably enjoy having people use his framework to target languages as C++, C#, and
others.  The best course of action, on the shorter term, would be for you to
start developing the appropriate templates for C#.  The new back-end will use the
same syntax for templates as found in src/org/sablecc/sablecc/*.txt.

If you feel like it, you can also modify the Gen* classes to get the current SableCC
to generate C#, but as soon as the new back-end is ready, I would like to use it
to do so.

Etienne

RUBIOJR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to work on a sablecc backend to generate csharp instead of
> java and adding the necesary code to sablecc so that the user can choose
> the languaje that sablecc generates. After that I want to use the "new"
> csharp enabled sablecc to rewrite sablecc in csharp and use it under the
> mono platform. Anyway, rewriting it is not a priority.
>
> I've been looking through the SableCC3 Beta2 code and it seems that the
> classes that need some work are Gen*.java clases and maybe the
> MacroExpander class ( I haven't looked at that one yet ). It seems that
> the generated *.txt macros need to be changed too. How did you generated
> that macros?
>
> Could someone please show me the right way?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> p.s. I'm not a native English speaker, so if you don't get the idea
> because of my english skills don't hesitate to ask me, I will try to
> explain it better.
>
> Cheers,
> Rubio Jr.


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