Internals and Externals of the FNC-2 Attribute Grammar
System
Attribute Evaluation Methods, volume 545 of Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci., page 485--504. New York--Heidelberg--Berlin, Springer-Verlag, (June 1991)ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/smartool/Didier.Parigot/publications/fnc2-t.ps.gz.Abstract
FNC-2 is a modern attribute grammar processing system aiming at expressive
power, efficiency, ease of use and versatility. This paper provides
the reader with a brief tour inside FNC-2, presenting the most important
features of its ``engine'': efficient sequential exhaustive, parallel
exhaustive and sequential incremental evaluation of strongly non-circular
AGs. These methods are based on the visit-sequence paradigm; the
first one makes use of extensive space optimizations. Then we describe
the external features of the system---attribute coupled grammar view
of an AG, specially-designed AG-description language, with provisions
for true modularity, and complete environment---that make it really
usable for developing large-scale applications. Experience with the
system is briefly reported.
Description
Attribute Grammar
