DSL development based on target meta-models. Using AST transformations for automating semantic analysis in a textual DSL framework

2008/01/08 by Andrey Breslav, Breslav, Andrey
Computer Science · #D.3.4 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #cs.PL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0801.1219

15 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2008/01/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

This paper describes an approach to creating textual syntax for Do- main-Specific Languages (DSL). We consider target meta-model to be the main artifact and hence to be developed first. The key idea is to represent analysis of textual syntax as a sequence of transformations. This is made by explicit opera- tions on abstract syntax trees (ATS), for which a simple language is proposed. Text-to-model transformation is divided into two parts: text-to-AST (developed by openArchitectureWare [1]) and AST-to-model (proposed by this paper). Our approach simplifies semantic analysis and helps to generate as much as possi- ble.

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