Hi again, I'm developing a parser for VA .app files and .st files. I'm using PPSmalltalkParsers to parse smalltalk methods but I need to enrich these objects with more information so I specialized RBMethodNode to add the info I need. The question is now, what about the importer? Is there any I can reuse that compute already method invocations and accesses or I should write a brand new one?
Cheers, Fabrizio
2013/2/21 Fabrizio Perin fabrizio.perin@gmail.com:
Hi, thanks for the responses. I think I will go for the second option proposed by Doru but first I would like to check this Rossetta stuff which supports VA to squeak export.
The only think that make me scheptical is that the VA Smalltalk have concepts that are not in squeak. i.e. in VA you can have private methods and there is this concept of application. So I don't know if the RB AST is expressive enough and, most of all, if the importer will actually import this kind of info.
Let you know how it goes.
Cheers, Fabrizio
2013/2/20 Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb@gmail.com:
Hi.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Fabrizio Perin fabrizio.perin@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> > > - Should I customize the PPSmalltalkParser or should I start a parser > from scratch? > - Did anybody tried to import in moose a smalltalk dilect different > from pharo? If yes how did he do that? > > I just want to understand if I can save time or I should build a whole > parser and importer from scratch.
I've done similar work (except from VSE Smalltalk). My path was to use port the code to moose first, then work with it in the image. The tool I use doesn't appear to be readily available anymore, but there are other options, such as:
http://rosettast.sourceforge.net/ (this that might support VisualAge to Moose already)
https://github.com/CampSmalltalk/Cypress (those doesn't appear to currently support VisualAge to Moose, but has been active recently)
I have not used either of these, though.
Enjoy, Chris
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