Object-Oriented Language Processing

摘要

Compiler architecture often follows an imperative layout. Different actions in the compiler are modeled as functions that operate over defined data structures. In this work, we present existing methodologies for writing object-oriented language-processing tools. As a contribution, we explore possibilities of writing a compiler based on recursive descent parsing in an object-oriented way. As a proof of the concept, we present a parser generator that employs the presented constructs both in its internal structure and in generated output.