Hannes,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3/30/11, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >From conceptual and practical point of view,
> > OMeta - is not yet another "system tool" written for Squeak or another
> fork,
> > in contrary to XTreams (a generalized stream/iterator framework written
> in
> > Smalltalk) burned in Pharo.


Oh! That's Gmail's check spelling fault, sorry.
I meant: XTreams was borned in Pharo (not burned :)


XTreams is primarily a generalized stream/iterator framework.  It
> contains PEG parser generation facilities, which I assume might use
> XTreams. If not the PEG parser stuff could be separated.
>
>
Nikolay, what you write is interesting but too terse for me to
> understand. If I understand you right you mean that OMeta goes beyond
> the PEG parser in XTreams and PetitParser (L. Renggli) and Helvetia (L
> Renggli).
>
> In which ways does OMeta go beyond these other tools?
>
>
Again, I just could repeat, OMeta is not yet another tool, like PEG parser
stuff, that could be founded in XTreams, Helvetica or PetitParser and
others. It is a language, furthermore it is an object-oriented language for
pattern matching. And it is based just on a variant of PEGs, which have been
extended to handle arbitrary data types.
Thinking, that I couldn't say better then it is written on the author's site
and his paper (http://www.tinlizzie.org/~awarth/papers/dls07.pdf), how OMeta
goes beyond.

Regards,
Nikolay



> AND: Of course very welcome that you run for the board.
>
> --Hannes
>
>
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