Re: Defining functions on the fly

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 16.06.2015 um 18:13 schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
> Andreas, you might be interested in reading:
>
> https://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/ics228/SynGen.pdf
>
> and
>
>      Teitelbaum, T.; T. Reps (September 1981). "The Cornell Program
>      Synthesizer: A syntax-directed programming
>      environment". Communications of the ACM 24 (9):
>      563–573. doi:10.1145/358746.358755.
>
> if you can get your hands on it.
>
> Check also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor
>
> Basically, you could generate the whole mode all the structured editing
> commands, from a grammar of the language you want to edit.
>
> And since you could include in the grammar, grammars of other languages
> when you have such escape, such as html scripts, or php, etc, you would
> get automatically "multi-mode" structured editing modes.
>
>
> Now, when you generate code (eg. a programming language compiler), it is
> perfectly normal to have parts that are generated, and functions and
> stubs that are written once for all for all the programs: a run-time
> library.
>
> Your code generate would naturally bind mode commands whose name would
> be prefixed by the name of the grammar (= the mode), but the run-time
> library would be the same for all those generated mode, and would have a
> library prefix instead.
>

Thanks. Will not dig into further here, as it's a vast area - let's go 
back to the real thing :)