[stringtemplate-interest] ST 4.0 planning

[Roman Odaisky]

On Monday, 08.09.2008 20:48:19 Terence Parr wrote:

> 1. In principle, we could use the rechargeable architecture pattern of
> ANTLR to generate whatever source code we want; C++ and so on. the
> only requirement would be some sort of reflection still because I
> don't want attributes to be typed in ST. That means that you'd need
> RTTI for C++, which it supposedly has now.

No, C++ RTTI won’t help.

Someone would have to define the mapping between attributes and their names 
manually.

> I'm planning on breaking with absolute backward compatibility to fix a
> number of design flaws that came about because requirements changed
> during the last eight years.

Quite a lot of ST is redundant. if, separator, null, etc. I wonder what would 
happen if ST were brought to an absolute minimum and then a more concise 
syntax were devised for it.

ST already has everything a functional language needs: car, cdr and 
recursion :-)

And at last some delimiters apart from $$ and <> have to be invented!

-- 
WBR
Roman.
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