On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Javier Pimás <elpochodelagente at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi! Recently I discovered that there is a parser project called SmaCC. I
> don't know if it works, but I think it includes parsers for C, Java and
> Smalltalk, do you know/did you try it?
>

Thanks, but no thanks :-)

I know SmaCC exists, but I never use parser generators. In Newspeak we use
parser combinators, which is a much nicer approach. There is a Smalltalk
version of the parser combinator library as well as a Newspeak one.
Making parsers is easy if you have the correct grammar.

There is of course something to be said for a ready made parser if it exists
- but you have to be confident it is correct, and you become dependent on
the framework it uses.



>
> Regards,
>            Javier.
>
> 2010/3/11 John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
>
>> Ah, well I can also help eliot on this, sometimes he gets too busy... plus
>> I want to ensure the objective-c binding happens.
>>
>> On 2010-03-11, at 11:26 AM, Gilad Bracha wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mariano,
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you mean to list Eliot as the co-mentor or mentor on this
>> one.  If anyone got stuck and asked my help, I would end up bugging Eliot
>> anyway.  And he did agree.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tomorrow morning we will be submitting...so, for this project, we only
>>> have this proposal:
>>>
>>> Work on a cross-dialect foreign function call interface and implement it
>>> in at least two dialects.  Candidates include Alien and GNU Smalltalk's
>>> CObject (using existing implementation has the advantage of having to
>>> implement in only _one_ other dialect!).  Bonus points for implementing a C
>>> parser that would be able to construct bindings.  GNU Smalltalk already
>>> contains a C preprocessor implementation.
>>> There is some support for parsing C headers in the Newspeak system.
>>> Aliens have been ported to Strongtalk as well as Squeak.
>>>
>>> The mentor will be John McIntosh and Gilad Brancha co-mentor.
>>>
>>> Can this proposal be more complete and have similar structure to the rest
>>> ?  If true, send me the proposal.
>>>
>>> Check http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas.html
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Mariano
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gilad
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Javier Pimás
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>



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Cheers, Gilad
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