Visual Basic Interpretter

G'day,

I was wanting to write a Visual Basic interpretter, and having already
used, and being much impressed, with beanshell, I was hoping to make use
of it.

Now I haven't quite got my head around the relationship between JavaCC,
Beanshell, and that objectasm library yet.

But, let me know if I've got this straight;

JavaCC generates some kind of parser from a (jjt?) file, which beanshell
uses and takes the tokens and builds an 'abstract syntax tree', and then
builds a class definiton with the objectasm thing.

So, all I should need to do, is grab the Visual Basic jjt file from here..
https://javacc.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=110
regenerate the parsing classes (and make the manual modifications to these
afterwards), and beanshell should interpret visual basic syntax... (?)

Is that correct? If it isn't, what approach should I use for making a
visual basic interpretter?

thanks in advance.

J.


-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO
September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA
Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf