Newbie technical/cultural question

Michael Lucas-Smith ich at driftwood.darktech.org
Tue Aug 1 10:52:01 UTC 2000


Chris WRIGHT wrote:

> I've admired Smalltalk from afar (like, from MacApp frameworks and
> Python) for a long while, and I've decided to take the plunge. I want
> to implement a BDI Agent framework (Belief/Desire/Intention) that will
> enable users to spit out PROMELA code (the process description
> language of the SPIN model checker) to verify certain properties of
> their agents / agent architecture.
>
> In the past, I've done this by writing a "little language" and an
> interpreter for the language.
>
> I'm not sure of the "right" way to do this in Smalltalk. I guess part
> of my question is "Is there a set of lexers/parsers that I can
> use (or subclass) to parse my little language - which mightn't look

> anything like Smalltalk?" or do I have to write my own?

might i be slightly blasphemous here and suggest that you use yacc
instead? it's a language that exists and thrives on the challenges of
parsing stuff. Gnu Smalltalk is parsed using it.

Michael.





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