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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Van Wyk, Eric
• Bodin, Derek
• Gao, Jimin
• Krishnan, Lijesh

Titel

Silver: An extensible attribute grammar system

Ist Teil von

• Science of computer programming, 2010, Vol.75 (1), p.39-54

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Attribute grammar specification languages, like many domain-specific languages, offer significant advantages to their users, such as high-level declarative constructs and domain-specific analyses. Despite these advantages, attribute grammars are often not adopted to the degree that their proponents envision. One practical obstacle to their adoption is a perceived lack of both domain-specific and general purpose language features needed to address the many different aspects of a problem. Here we describe Silver, an extensible attribute grammar specification system, and show how it can be extended with general purpose features such as pattern matching and domain-specific features such as collection attributes and constructs for supporting data-flow analysis of imperative programs. The result is an attribute grammar specification language with a rich set of language features. Silver is implemented in itself by a Silver attribute grammar and utilizes forwarding to implement the extensions in a cost-effective manner.