Parsing Objective-J

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Hi,

I would like to parse some files written in Objective-J to do some source transformation and I have several choices :

1- JavaCC
2- Antlr
3- Modify clang to parse it

I have grammar for 1) and 2) and I am wondering if 3) would be an alternative.

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Modifying Clang to support Objective-J doesn't make much sense. The basis of that language is inherently Javascript, not C. While there are syntactic similarities, they are very different from a language perspective. You could potentially reuse pieces of Clang, such as the lexer, but the semantic analysis, parsing, and ASTs, are very specific to C, C++, and Objective-C.