[Newcompiler] [ANN] First version of Shout using new SqueakParser/SqueakScanner

[Marcus Denker]

On 27.08.2006, at 16:47, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

>>
>> Currently, the subclasses have their own SmaCC definitions, but it  
>> would be good
>> to merge the changed definiiton into the main parser/scanner. Who  
>> is the best
>> person to talk to about that?
>
> marcus/philippe?

Yes... I can have a look. It would be really cool to have just one  
parser for everything!

>
>>     I got around this by using the old compiler to compile  
>> SqueakParser/
>> scanner, but it raises the question - "if an image only contained  
>> the new
>> compiler, then how could the parser be maintained?". How would  
>> this be handled -
>> include the old compiler, modify the Smacc generator to compile to  
>> a temporary
>> class and then rename it, have 2 Smacc parsers and alternate  
>> between them, ...?
>> Of course, by subclassing SqueakParser/scanner I circumvented the  
>> problem
>> altogether.
>
> This is a really fun question.

Yes. We need to solve this before we can possibly move over to the  
newcompiler
completely.

     Marcus
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