Antlr is an important project. It features grammar files for most languages. Having one for vala is a great asset for vala, I would say. Also, some effort is needed even for using vala's own parser.
Probably, one of the reasons I say this is that even know, I'm not able to install a proper ide for vala on my Ubuntu box. The compiler works fine but neither valide nor the gedit plugin would install correctly. So I still hope that more tools will emerge for this great new language. Having an ANTLR grammar for it would be a boost. Personally, I'm a full-time eclipse user and fan. Hope I didn't say too many useless things, if so, feel free to ignore ;)" -- Victor On Jun 18, 2011 10:27 PM, "Maga Abdurakhmanov" <maq...@gmail.com> wrote: > Victor, it was the first way i tried out. I've almost implemented lexer and > parser for Vala using antlr rules. And there is a basic plugin for netbeans > using that lexer. > > But there still to much things to fix and do and i'm very limited in my > time. > libvala has already implemented lexer and parser and evolve with the vala > itself. And in the future all new constructions of language will be easier > to support. > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Victor D. <victor.dra...@cabanova.info >wrote: > >> sorry to interfere, i might be naive, but i have a different view here >> i would advise for an independent from-scratch parser, optimized for a dev >> tool, for writing code, which is a bit different than for the compiler. the >> parser has to be permissive, it has to figure out the best it can >> incomplete >> and illegal structures, so that the code completion/highlight doesn't brake >> all the time while you write. >> >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Maga Abdurakhmanov <maq...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > > >> > > >> > > Comments are inside ast nodes, look better. >> > > >> > >> > There are only some of the comments inside ast nodes (valadoc and first >> > comment in file). To highlight syntax i need to get all of them as >> tokens. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sincerely, >> > Magomed >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > vala-list mailing list >> > vala-list@gnome.org >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Victor Dramba >> Head of Programming at Cabanova >> >> www.cabanova.com >> www.victordramba.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vala-list mailing list >> vala-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >> >> > > > -- > Sincerely, > Magomed
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