Saturday 21st July, 1pm to 6pm at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club
ANTLR: Another Tool for Language Recognition
Jeffrey Best
Jeff will be talking about his experiences with ANTLR4, creating a small, domain-specific expression language for a Java application. There will be a real example, rather than a lot of theory on lexical analysis, grammars or parsing, but he will run through the basics of defining a lexer and a grammar, show the simple statements required to build a parse tree and the benefits of using listener methods, over visitors, to handle evaluation as ANTLR4 walks the parse tree. He will demonstrate adding ANTLR4 to your Java Maven project, how to generate the lexer and grammar source code from your definitions and how to extend the base listener class with your own implementations.