NAME
eyapp - A perl frontend to the Parse::Eyapp module
SYNOPSYS
eyapp [options] grammar[.eyp]
eyapp [options] grammar[.yp]
eyapp -V # Produce .output file
eyapp -h # help
eyapp -c grammar.eyp # Strip semantic actions
eyapp -vc grammar.eyp # Strip comments also
DESCRIPTION
eyapp is a frontend to the Parse::Eyapp module, which lets you compile Parse::Eyapp grammar input files into Perl LALR(1) OO parser modules.
OPTIONS
- -v
-
Creates a file grammar.output describing your parser. It will show you a summary of conflicts, rules, the DFA (Deterministic Finite Automaton) states and overall usage of the parser.
This file grammar.output will be also automatically generated if warnings are issued.
- -s
-
Create a standalone module in which the parsing driver is included. The modules including the LALR driver (Parse::Eyapp::Driver), those for AST manipulations (Parse::Eyapp::Node and Parse::Eyapp::YATW)) and Parse::Eyapp::Base are included - almost verbatim - inside the generated module.
Note that if you have more than one parser module called from a program, to have it standalone, you need this option only for one of your grammars;
- -n
-
Disable source file line numbering embedded in your parser module. I don't know why one should need it, but it's there.
- -m module
-
Gives your parser module the package name (or name space or module name or class name or whatever-you-call-it) of module. It defaults to grammar
- -o outfile
-
The compiled output file will be named outfile for your parser module. It defaults to grammar.pm or, if you specified the option -m A::Module::Name (see below), to Name.pm.
- -c grammar[.eyp]
-
Produces as output (STDOUT) the grammar without the actions. Only the syntactic parts are displayed. Comments will be also stripped if the
-v
option is added. - -t filename
-
The -t filename option allows you to specify a file which should be used as template for generating the parser output. The default is to use the internal template defined in Parse::Eyapp::Output.pm. For how to write your own template and which substitutions are available, have a look to the module Parse::Eyapp::Output.pm : it should be obvious.
- -b shebang
-
If you work on systems that understand so called shebangs, and your generated parser is directly an executable script, you can specifie one with the -b option, ie:
eyapp -b '/usr/local/bin/perl -w' -o myscript.pl myscript.yp
This will output a file called myscript.pl whose very first line is:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
The argument is mandatory, but if you specify an empty string, the value of $Config{perlpath} will be used instead.
- grammar
-
The input grammar file. If no suffix is given, and the file does not exists, an attempt to open the file with a suffix of .yp is tried before exiting.
- -V
-
Display current version of Parse::Eyapp and gracefully exits.
- -h
-
Display the usage screen.
AUTHOR
Casiano Rodriguez-Leon
COPYRIGHT
(c) Copyright 2006 Casiano Rodriguez-Leon
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
SEE ALSO
perldoc vgg,
The tutorial Parsing Strings and Trees with
Parse::Eyapp
(An Introduction to Compiler Construction in seven pages)> inThe pdf file in http://nereida.deioc.ull.es/~pl/perlexamples/Eyapp.pdf
http://nereida.deioc.ull.es/~pl/perlexamples/section_eyappts.html (Spanish),
yacc(1),
bison(1),
the classic book "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and
Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986)