Re: .NET Grammar modification



On Nov 29, 7:54 pm, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm curious as to if .NET provides any direct means to modifying its own
grammar? e.g., if say I want to had some "features" to C# which can easily
be reinterpreted back into the original C# but I do not want to have to
write a full blow parser just to change some simple thing.

Lets suppose want to add a "macro" that on the surface adds the keyword
"property" which in reality is just a shorthand for the standard properties
in C#. I know VS has abilities to do macro's but they are more like "code
inserts" than preprocessing. I want something that is transparent in that it
acts like an extended version of C# but translates directly into it(through
preprocessing).

I know many will say that one shouldn't do this but thats not the point. I
don't want to hack together a quick brute force parser to do some small
conversions but I also don't want to have to implement a full blown parser
to handle a few modifications I want to do.

To be more clear, what I want is some way to preprocess C# files in a
grammatically compatible way to add some small isomorphic features to C#.
The method will simply generate a cs file that will be treated in the normal
way. (Although there is the problem of error handling but its not that big a
deal at this point)

Thanks,
Jon

It's called syntax and common lisp is known for the possibility of
modification and even writing itself.

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