Re: [Grammatica-users] Future of grammatica

[Per Cederberg]

I don't quite understand what you want to do, but it is possible
to analyze grammars in a multitude of ways. It's similar to the
"actions" of other parser generators, but not exactly (as
Grammatica gives you the ability to changed the generated parse
tree on-the-fly). Have a look at the example code in the manual
and in the distribution, maybe they'll clear some things out:

http://www.nongnu.org/grammatica/doc/manual/example.html

In your case, I guess your Analyzer subclass should have exitX()
methods that set and propagate node values (see addValue()) that
you can read afterwards. Another way to store information from
the parsed text file would be to store then in instance variables
in the Analyzer subclass.

Cheers,

/Per

On mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:30 -0700, Anant Mistry wrote:
> 
> Thanks a lot Per, for putting my mind at rest. Thank you for a great
> tool.
> 
> I do have one more question, the parser I'm trying to write is going
> to be really simplistic and the action that needs to be called and the
> end of the parsing, needs to set specific attributes in a bean based
> on where the parsing ends up (at the end of the grammar definition it
> may set attribute 1,2,5,8 but if it parses to another action then it
> should set attribute 2,8,10, etc.). My question is, do I have to
> override every action separately (i.e. can I make each action call the
> same method directly)? I'm not sure I can explain my question any
> better than this, so if it doesn't make sense .... please ignore it :)
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Anant
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:13 +0100, Per Cederberg wrote: 
> > Grammatica is not unmaintained and support is still available from
> > this mailing list. I'm using Grammatica in another project, so I
> > have no plans to retire or replace Grammatica.
> > 
> > There are no known serious bugs, which partially explains the lack
> > of recent releases. The CVS repository contains fixes for a few
> > minor issues along with some new stuff.
> > 
> > Development has been on ice for a while, though. I've got a full
> > .NET port in the pipeline and a number of efficiency fixes, but
> > unfortunately other projects have been taking most of my time for
> > the last year or more. From your mail I guess it is about time for
> > a new release sometime soon now, even though there might not be
> > that many fixes or improvements in that one.
> > 
> > Hope this answers your question!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > /Per
> > 
> > On mon, 2005-03-07 at 07:18 -0700, Anant Mistry wrote:
> > > I'm considering using Grammatica for a project after looking at JAVACC
> > > and ANTLR. I am looking to migrate a legacy parser (written in C and
> > > not aided by any CC tools). I want to have a parser that separates a
> > > grammar defined in an EBNF notation, from the code that carries out
> > > actions based on the parsing. Grammatica seems to accomplish that goal
> > > (like in ANTLR ,I feel that having to embed code into the grammar
> > > makes the definition unreadable).
> > > 
> > > My worry is the build date, (sometime in 2003 was the last version). I
> > > know that there are recent posts to the user group, but what is the
> > > future support for Grammatica? I don't really want to go down the
> > > ANTLR path, but if the releases for Grammatica are going to dry up, I
> > > might have to.
> > > 
> > > Please let me know
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Anant 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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