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Silver: an Extensible Attribute Grammar System (2007)
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@MISC{Wyk07silver:an,
author = {Eric Van Wyk and Derek Bodin and Jimin Gao and Lijesh Krishnan},
title = {Silver: an Extensible Attribute Grammar System },
year = {2007}
}
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Abstract
Attribute grammar specification languages, like many domain specific languages, offer significant advantages to their users, such as high-level declarative constructs and domain-specific analyses. Despite these advantages, attribute grammars are often not adopted to the degree that their proponents envision. One practical obstacle to their adoption is a perceived lack of the both domain-specific and general purpose language features needed to address all of the different aspects of a problem. Here we describe Silver, an extensible attribute grammar specification language, and show how it can be extended with general purpose features such as pattern matching and domain specific features such as collection attributes and constructs for supporting data-flow analysis of imperative programs. Silver is implemented in itself by a Silver attribute grammar and utilizes forwarding to implement the extensions in a cost-effective manner. The result is an attribute grammar specification language with a rich set of language features.
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extensible attribute grammar system attribute grammar specification language general purpose language feature data-flow analysis imperative program domain specific feature attribute grammar specific language perceived lack general purpose feature different aspect practical obstacle cost-effective manner domain-specific analysis pattern matching language feature utilizes forwarding high-level declarative construct extensible attribute grammar specification language rich set collection attribute significant advantage silver attribute grammar proponent envision
