Hi,
due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is absolutely
what I need. Thanks Walter.

Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A
1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking about
:
http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77

The ANTLR Homepage :
http://www.antlr.org/
The grammalist
http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list

ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France

> Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A


"blls" <lietz@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:dsnfik$1hog$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi,
> due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is absolutely
> what I need. Thanks Walter.
>
> Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking
about
> : http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
>
> The ANTLR Homepage :
> http://www.antlr.org/
> The grammalist
> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
>
> ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
>
>

Damn that alt-enter.

Java Antlr gramar is a great idea.

> I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....

While Im not a fan of JFace we defintely need Draw2D.




"Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:dsnkov$1nbe$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D.
A
>
>
> "blls" <lietz@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:dsnfik$1hog$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Hi,
> > due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> > Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is
absolutely
> > what I need. Thanks Walter.
> >
> > Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D.
A
> > 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking
> about
> > : http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
> >
> > The ANTLR Homepage :
> > http://www.antlr.org/
> > The grammalist
> > http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
> >
> > ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> > I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> > HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
> >
> >
>
>

Comming from Germany, living in France, and actually working with an os in
dutch. Aargh.
Additional info:
The complete Java 1.5 grammar is also available.
A complete GNU C Translater seems to be available (could be used for .h to d
translations)

I will spend some time to browse through the documents. But it seems that
ANTLR is an excellent tool to write a translater. ( a how to write an
translater using ANTLR manual is also available)However, I am a D newbie so
I guess I will run into trouble.. maybe someone more experienced will pick
up the ball.
Bjoern

"Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> schreef in bericht news:dsnkov$1nbe$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D.
A
>
>
> "blls" <lietz@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:dsnfik$1hog$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Hi,
> > due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> > Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is
absolutely
> > what I need. Thanks Walter.
> >
> > Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D.
A
> > 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking
> about
> > : http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
> >
> > The ANTLR Homepage :
> > http://www.antlr.org/
> > The grammalist
> > http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
> >
> > ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> > I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> > HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
> >
> >
>
>

What about "Ragel State Machine Compiler"? I read a post sometime ago it was translated to D or something...

blls wrote:
> Hi,
> due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is absolutely
> what I need. Thanks Walter.
> 
> Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A
> 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking about
> :
> http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
> 
> The ANTLR Homepage :
> http://www.antlr.org/
> The grammalist
> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
> 
> ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
> 
> 

"bobef" <bobef@lessequal.com> schreef in bericht news:dsnp4e$1sks$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> What about "Ragel State Machine Compiler"? I read a post sometime ago it was translated to D or something...

sorry, no idea.
but to make it clear. it is not nessesary to translate antlr into D in oder
to use this tool to translate java into d code.
bjoern


>
> blls wrote:
> > Hi,
> > due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> > Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is
absolutely
> > what I need. Thanks Walter.
> >
> > Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D.
A
> > 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking
about
> > : http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
> >
> > The ANTLR Homepage :
> > http://www.antlr.org/
> > The grammalist
> > http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
> >
> > ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> > I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> > HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
> >
> >

blls wrote:
> Hi,
> due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
> Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is absolutely
> what I need. Thanks Walter.
> 
> Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A
> 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking about
> :
> http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
> 
> The ANTLR Homepage :
> http://www.antlr.org/
> The grammalist
> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
> 
> ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
> I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
> HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
> 
> 

I would like to see someone pick up the Molt project on dsource.org - IIRC, Scott Sanders had modified the Jikes compiler to output the Java source files into XML, and then use XSLT to convert the XML to D source.

http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=529

BA

In article <dsqac5$2bj9$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Brad Anderson says...
>
>blls wrote:
>> Hi,
>> due to the fact that this is my first message here : Why D is for me !
>> Comming from Modula2 and 3 (unfortunately both quit dead) D is absolutely
>> what I need. Thanks Walter.
>> 
>> Just an idea. Wh not choose ANTLR parser/lexer to translate Java into D. A
>> 1.3 Java grammar is available. To give you an idea wehat I am talking about
>> :
>> http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=77
>> 
>> The ANTLR Homepage :
>> http://www.antlr.org/
>> The grammalist
>> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list
>> 
>> ANTLR is written in Java.So porting this tool to D is at least possible
>> I hope this will help to port Jface and Draw2D....
>> HTH Bjoern Lietz-Spendig France
>> 
>> 
>
>I would like to see someone pick up the Molt project on dsource.org - IIRC, Scott Sanders had modified the Jikes compiler to output the Java source files into XML, and then use XSLT to convert the XML to D source.
>
>http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=529
>
>BA

Not to mention that dsource also hosts *two* lexer/parser generator frameworks:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/languagemachine/ http://www.dsource.org/projects/dgrammar/

Granted, they're not exactly ready for prime-time, but it might help with weening the community off of Java bit more.

- Eric Anderton at yahoo

pragma <pragma_member@pathlink.com> wrote in news:dsqe2q$2fsk$1@digitaldaemon.com:

> 
> Not to mention that dsource also hosts *two* lexer/parser generator frameworks:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/languagemachine/ http://www.dsource.org/projects/dgrammar/
> 
> Granted, they're not exactly ready for prime-time, but it might help with weening the community off of Java bit more.
> 
> - Eric Anderton at yahoo

Yeah, and one of them (the languagemachine) even has a working D frontend
/backend and seems to be very suitable for source-to-source translation.
Although, I have to admit that I tried to grasp the idea behind the
languagemachine during almost four evenings with little success.
I managed to get a feeling for rule selection in the frontend phase. But
when it comes to the connection between frontend/backend it took me down :-
(. So I put it aside, maybe my next try will have more success.

I've written a lexer for Java that I gave to Kris as the foundation for a j2d tool. It doesn't parse, it just lexes. I'll be happy to supply it to anyone else who wants to work on a j2d tool.

For anyone curious about how compilers work, building a j2d tool would be a great way to learn, while at the same time producing a tool that could be very valuable.