[Uml-devel] extending class import to other languages

[James E. Flemer]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Andrew Sutton wrote:

> > I'll get started on a PHP parser ... the lex part should be
> > pretty easy, assuming this is up to date:
> >
> > http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php-lang/c-like-syntax-spec.txt
>
> you're not going to build it for 1.1 are you? that's almost ready for final
> release, and we've been in a feature freeze for some time.

Nope, just playing around for now.

> it might be worthwhile to use antlr for the grammar tool rather than (f)lex.
> its still under active development and is probably the best grammar tool out
> there - except that its a java program :) it generates C++ parsers though. it
> also has alot better support for OO than flex (much, much, much better).

Eww... Java.  I'll look into it.  Does it have any
bison/yaccish counterpart?

-James