[stringtemplate-interest] we need a name for a new rewriting tool

[Swapnil Kashikar]

How about "Morpheze" -- eze shows meaning and rhyming with trapeze
brings to mind a picture of doing mental acrobatics on a bar suspended
on two ropes (say, antlr & stringtemplate :-)

Swapnil

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Leon Su, the maniac that brings you gUnit is currently working
> with me on a rewrite system similar to other rewrite engines such as
> ASF+SDF, Stratego, TXL etc...  I believe the tool is in line with the
> strategy championed by Andy Tripp.
>
> You'll be able to say things like "whenever you see x+0 in an IF
> expression, rewrite it to x":
>
> ---------------------
> rewrite Java; // applies rewrite rules to external java grammar
> tokens {
>        x=ID;
> }
>
> [ifstat ... expr]:
>        "x+0" -> "x"
>        "0+x" -> "x"
>        ...
> ---------------------
>
> It is going to be extremely cool and will also work for tree rewrites.
>
> The only problem we have is that we don't know what to call it. I
> originally had a nice tree rewriting system called Sorcerer (14 years
> ago) but now there are things like sourcerer and so on. can anybody
> help us name this tool?
>
> THesaurus entries:
>
> rewrite: revise, recast,reword, rephrase, redraft.
>
> transform: change, alter,convert, metamorphose, transfigure,
> transmute, mutate; revolutionize,overhaul; remodel, reshape, redo,
> reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, rearrange,rework, renew, revamp,
> remake, retool, transmogrify, morph
>
> rebuild: reconstruct, renovate, restore, remodel, remake,reassemble.
>
> Do any of those words help us?
>
> I think "morph" is actually not bad.  Morpheme sounds cooler but makes
> less sense.  Morphica?  Morphic?  Morphologic? Morphomatic? ha! that
> one is funny.
>
> How about metamorph? I like that one! google search only reveals a
> molecular device and some stupid school has taken metamorph.org. I
> guess that is no big deal because we will be using the antlr.org
> website for that.
>
> Ter
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