BNF grammar for D?

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 17/12/2014 09:13, Kingsley wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 03:03:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 17/12/2014 1:35 p.m., Kingsley wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 23:25:02 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 22:40:20 UTC, landaire wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 22:35:16 UTC, Jeremy Powers via
>>>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>>>> This looks eerily familiar...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I took a stab at an Intellij plugin a long time ago, and happened to
>>>>>> pick
>>>>>> the same name:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/elendel-/intelliD
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Been meaning to pick back up again, but haven't had the chance... was
>>>>>> waiting for the Eclipse plugin code to mature, then got distracted.
>>>>>> Feel
>>>>>> free to take anything that looks useful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brian Schott (Hackerpilot) has done a lot of useful work grammar
>>>>>> wise.  See:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An interesting path to take for an intellij plugin would be to use
>>>>>> his
>>>>>> DCD/libdparse for all the heavy lifting, with the plugin just
>>>>>> farming out
>>>>>> the work to external daemon process(es).  That would avoid having yet
>>>>>> another lexer/parser implementation to keep up to date.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually forked yours originally to get it running in IDEA 14, then
>>>>> decided to mess with the lexer since it was causing some problems and
>>>>> went off from there. I saw it was somewhat inactive and tried
>>>>> contacting you, but couldn't find any of your contact info anywhere!
>>>>> Glad to see you turned up here.
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I have been working on an intellij plugin which is here:
>>>> https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage
>>>>
>>>> I only started learning D a couple of weeks ago and I haven't written
>>>> an intellij plugin before - and also I'm not very familiar with
>>>> parsing/lexing.
>>>>
>>>> On my first pass - I got all the infrastructure working - e.g. run
>>>> configurations, project creation, file creation etc. And I'm working
>>>> on a BNF and JFlex by hand - but I realise it will take some time - so
>>>> I have a branch which implements the DDT parser/lexer so I could get
>>>> something working while I work on the bnf - however it breaks the
>>>> contextual run configurations - which is pretty much essential for the
>>>> plugin to be useful.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to get the DDT parser/lexer working but I'm not really sure
>>>> where to go from where I am now. My DDT branch is called with_ddt.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any pointers to what I need to do next that would be
>>>> very helpful - even in terms of reading or reference material. I guess
>>>> it all comes down to the DParserDefinition class - as my master branch
>>>> uses a FlexAdapter which gives access to the context. But in the
>>>> with_ddt branch its just using the DParser - which I think needs to
>>>> have the hooks into the AST tree implemented or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway let me know if you have any pointers or offers of help :)
>>>>
>>>> --K
>>>
>>> Actually I guess what I need is a way to make the PSI structure. I'm not
>>> sure how I would do that with the DDT code I have imported.
>>
>> I've sent you an email reguarding my own work on getting a plugin
>> together using Dscanner. As well as the source code.
>> Feel free to use it.
>
> I've successfully integrated the Psi generation stuff with the DDT
> parser/lexer now with a huge thanks to Rikki. So now I think I can add
> all the other ps related stuff - code insight, refactoring, completion
> etc etc
>
> Of course its the first cut - so I'll have to do some code cleanup once
> I understand what I'm doing!
>
> Thanks for your help and support :)

Also, if you have questions about the DDT parser/lexer, or if there are 
changes that might help your project, let me know, I'll be glad to add 
such changes (assuming they also fit well with the way DDT uses the 
parser/lexer).


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Bruno Medeiros
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