Hi, Speaking of language syntax in another thread it got me thinking. Being around FPC for a few years now I have read many messages and saw patches regarding language extensions etc...
Then today by pure accident while searching for Modula-2 if..then..end syntax I came across this page: http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/coco/ Coco/R ( a compiler generator). A language syntax is described in a rather simple manner. You then feed this information into a program and it generates a parser and scanner. The above URL mentions versions available for Modula-2, Pascal, Delphi and many more... Students from the Rhodes University used Coco/R to create a new teaching language based on Modula-2. They called in Umbriel, and used Coco/R. http://scifac.ru.ac.za/cspt/sigplan.htm I gather FPC doesn't use something like this? If so, any specific reason why not? It seems like a very easy way to extend the language though. Simply describe the syntax and another program generates the code. Here is more information on Wikipedia about Coco/R http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco/R -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
