On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Gilad Bracha <gbracha@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Javier Pim�s <elpochodelagente@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.�

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Regards,
�� Javier.

2010/3/11 John M McIntosh <johnmci@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@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

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