Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: TPLY

2010-10-28 Thread Brian Winfrey
Thank you, What techiniques have you used in the past that you could share to get me started? On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:04 PM, leledumbo wrote: > > Learn compilation technique, a recursive descent parser should be easy to > understand and code instead of learning automatic lexer and parser > gene

[fpc-pascal] Re: TPLY

2010-10-27 Thread leledumbo
Learn compilation technique, a recursive descent parser should be easy to understand and code instead of learning automatic lexer and parser generator. Plus, structurally, Java is a very simple language, so AST transformation should be easy. With FPC 2.5.1, almost all Java constructs can be direct

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: TPLY

2010-10-26 Thread Brian Winfrey
> I prefer doing this manually, syntax conversion is easy, but library design > is totally different. A conversion of the Java code will provide a good starting point I think. Additionally, learning TPLY or lex/yacc could prove very useful I think. Do you have grammer files for syntax conversion

[fpc-pascal] Re: TPLY

2010-10-26 Thread leledumbo
I prefer doing this manually, syntax conversion is easy, but library design is totally different. -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/TPLY-tp3235828p3236641.html Sent from the Free Pascal - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.