Hey guys That's awesome. It would be more so if you could share the details/instructions on the working environment, perhaps a wiki?. It would make it easier to help out and contribute to the task :D
I was personally investigating ways on hooking up antlr grammar to the new graal/truffle infraestructure. At this point is a lot more of an idea than a concrete proposal. Anyways keep up the good work E. On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote: > Great news Jesper! > > Please keep us updated on your progress, and if you need any help, don't > hesitate. > Indeed the first milestone is to get a working environment, and the second > one to be able to have the same scope as the current parser, ideally > generating the same AST (but perhaps there might be areas where we might > think some updates are needed) > For the third milestone, that would be discussing and progressivly adding > the Java 8 related construct we want to support or not in Groovy 3. > > Guillaume > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Jesper Steen Møller <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi list >> >> On 31.01.2016 21:29, Thibault Kruse wrote: >> >> > Are Antlr 4 and Jva 8 syntax linked somethow, meaning is there a hard >> > problem describing certain java8 features using whatever antlr version >> > is used right now? >> >> I’ve decided to give the Antlr4 task another go. >> I had some major trouble getting a reasonable development setup (even >> with IntelliJ), but now it seems I can actually get the ball rolling with a >> reasonable unit test turnaround time (again using Eclipse and a slightly >> patched Groovy-Eclipse compiler). >> >> I guess the next milestone is to ensure that the parser derives the same >> AST’s as the Antlr2 parser, but before that there are some constructs I >> know aren’t behaving correctly. >> >> -Jesper > > > > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Apache Groovy committer & PMC member > Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com> > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> >
