Re: Netbeans E-Lang language support

Hi Marcelo, you say "Now the need to develop in E has returned." I'm
curious. Could you expand on that? Thanks.


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:53 AM, "Marcelo D. Ré" <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi All!
>
>     Some time ago, I was trying to write a plugin that support E in
> Netbeans. The module work but had some bugs, and since the need of develop
> in E postponed, I abandoned the project.
>     Now the need to develop in E has returned. Unfortunately the module
> that I had used is no more supported in Netbeans, so I start again a new
> project, this time directly in Antlr.
>     I get the easy part working (I think), the Lexer but have problem with
> the Parser. I have rewrite the grammar in Antlr3 and I use Antlrwork1.5 to
> generate the Lexer/Parser.
>     I do not know enough about Antlr son my ".g" file surely has bug.
> Actually it generate a Parser of about 867kb and it wont compile.
>     Currently the module have syntax highlight but without the Parser I
> could not get error detection.  If anyone is interested I can upload the
> module to sourceforge or github.
>

I have never become comfortable or proficient with Antlr myself. But Dean
Tribble did an Antlr grammar in the E distribution at

    /e/src/jsrc/org/erights/e/elang/syntax/antlr/e.g

Have you looked at this? In any case, posting what you've got to github
would certainly help you find interest.


>     Are there somebody that could help me with this? I need to detect what
> is the error that generate a big parser. I attach the ".g"
>
>     Thanks
>
>             Marcelo
>
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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

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