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

From	"Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: How do you create a grammar for a multi-language language?
Date	2022-03-07 13:39 +1100
Organization	Compilers Central
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From: "gah4" <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2022 4:10 PM
>
> 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.)

IBM's PL/I has a preprocessor that accepts a subset of PL/I.
The finished text is then passed to the compiler.

XPL processes such text as it goes, handling the text processing
before passing it to the compiler.

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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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