Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:25:01 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="uZlcKoxCDvYxlcrl0EM5vQ"; logging-data="6897"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XWUw2re5IRasrZJG54T9Gecv6Ds1OX7w=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:TyFtYk+ep4d84n+KvxI3iWLAQUM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5657 On 06/24/2011 02:50 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:36:53 -0700, Joshua Cranmer >> Finally, I might add, if you're writing a full parser, it might be >> better to just use an existing Java lexer rather than rolling your own >> unless you have a *very* good reason not to. > > I am writing a *simple* parser. It is not for grovelling over > Java code. It is for a preprocessor for SQL Server for better code > management. I mean for it to be fairly language-agnostic. > What means simple? JavaCC is the parser generator that I'm most familiar with.