Parser Development with an Internal Domain-Specific Language and an Aspect Weaver

Kazuaki Maeda

8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

Research Article

Parser Development with an Internal Domain-Specific Language and an Aspect Weaver

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257977,
    author={Kazuaki Maeda},
    title={Parser Development with an Internal Domain-Specific Language and an Aspect Weaver},
    proceedings={8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={BICT},
    year={2015},
    month={2},
    keywords={parser development domain-specific language aspect-oriented programming ruby},
    doi={10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257977}
}

Kazuaki Maeda
Year: 2015
Parser Development with an Internal Domain-Specific Language and an Aspect Weaver
BICT
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257977

Kazuaki Maeda¹^,*

1: Chubu University

*Contact email: kmaeda@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper describes an internal domain-specific language (DSL) to write syntax rules and action code in Ruby. Parser generators read a mixture of the syntax rules and the action code written in one of the general-purpose languages. If the action code contains trivial syntax errors, the parser generators do not analyze the code; they generate source code containing the syntax errors. To resolve this situation, an internal DSL to define syntax rules was designed as a subset of Ruby. Moreover, action code is injected into the generated parser using an aspect weaver. In the author's preliminary experience, productivity was improved in the design and implementation of parsers.

Keywords: parser development domain-specific language aspect-oriented programming ruby

Published: 2015-02-02
Publisher: ICST
Appears in: ACM Digital Library

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257977