Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language?

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On Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 1:50:24 PM UTC-8, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hello Compiler Experts!

> Suppose you are creating a grammar for a language that hosts other languages.
> For example, the (parent) language hosts the regular expression language and
> the XPath language. How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language?

A little it depends on how the two go together.

A not so unusual way to write compilers years ago, was recursive descent
for statements, and operator precedence for expressions.  The recursive
descent parser calls the operator precedence parser when it needs an
expression to be parsed.

Some mixed languages can be parsed separately.

The C preprocessor, originally a separate pass, but now usually implemented
together with the rest of the C compiler, processes its statements, and passes
everything else through.  It does that well enough, that it is commonly used
with Fortran.  (The traditional version, not the newer one.)

PHP is designed to recognize its syntax, and ignore everything else, which
is normally html, but could be another language.

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How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-03-03 13:57 +0000
  Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-03-05 22:29 +0000
    Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? "Kartik Agaram" <ak@akkartik.com> - 2022-03-05 16:55 -0800
    RE: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-03-06 15:37 +0200
      Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-06 14:36 -0800
        Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-06 16:50 -0800
      RE: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-03-06 23:32 +0000
  Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-05 21:10 -0800
    Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-03-07 13:39 +1100
  Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-03-06 12:23 +0100
    Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-03-07 05:08 +0100
      Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-06 21:22 -0800
        Keywords and Reserved Words Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-03-08 21:46 +0200
          Re: Keywords and Reserved Words gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-03-09 00:31 -0800
            Re: Keywords and Reserved Words "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-03-10 10:00 +1100
          Re: Keywords and Reserved Words "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-03-10 09:55 +1100
            Re: Keywords and Reserved Words in Fortran Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-03-10 07:07 +0000
          Re: Keywords and Reserved Words "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-03-10 11:59 +1100

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