Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Abstract syntax from concrete syntax
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Pattern hatching: design patterns applied
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Challenges of refactoring C programs
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Generalized L.R. Parsing
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Program refactoring in the presence of preprocessor directives
Program refactoring in the presence of preprocessor directives
The TXL source transformation language
Science of Computer Programming - The fourth workshop on language descriptions, tools, and applications (LDTA'04)
The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages
The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages
The Zephyr abstract syntax description language
DSL'97 Proceedings of the Conference on Domain-Specific Languages on Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), 1997
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Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity
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Building a production-quality refactoring engine or similar source code transformation tool traditionally requires a large amount of hand-written, language-specific support code. We describe a system which reduces this overhead by allowing both a parser and a fully rewritable AST to be generated automatically from an annotated grammar, requiring little or no additional hand-written code. The rewritable AST is ideal for implementing program transformations that preserve the formatting of the original sources, including spacing and comments, and the system can be augmented to allow transformation of C-preprocessed sources even when the target language is not C or C++. Moreover, the AST design is fully customizable, allowing it to resemble a hand-coded tree. The amount of required annotation is typically quite small, and the annotated grammar is often an order of magnitude smaller than the generated code.