On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 18:31 -0400, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
Hi Ross,
Thanks for the pointer, and for making it. I'm going to try it (I'm building a SAS parser).
It would be very cool if your parser can be part of Moose (http://moosetechnology.org). By doing your metamodel as an extension of FAMIX, you will have tons of tools for navigation and visualization that comes for free.
Cheers, Alexandre I started reading about Moose (esp Meta-environment and executable meta-language using smalltalk) and it was all about languages with introspection. SAS has no such ability, and is not even object oriented. So it didn't seem like a good fit. Have I misunderstood--for example, are the remarks directed more at smalltalk as an implementation language for Moose?
In other ways some kind of preexisting framework would be helpful. I'm making the parser because I want to understand where a particular dataset, and then a particular variable in the dataset, came from. Ross