sle2012s/paper03

SLE 2012 SI paper:
The Design and Implementation of Object Grammars

Tijs van der Storm, William R. Cook, Alex Loh

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2014.02.023
• Extended version of Object Grammars: Compositional and Bidirectional Mapping between Text and Graphs (SLE 2012)
• T3A: Meta-languages
  • Object Grammars are presented as a new grammar formalism (a meta-language) extending BNF with bidirectional mappings to object graphs.
• T1D: Composition
  • A key claim is compositionality—languages can be defined and combined modularly, supporting language composition and integration.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • The work is grounded in an implementation (as a foundation of the Enso¯ system), i.e., a concrete meta-tool/workbench contribution.
• T3C: DSLs
  • The paper demonstrates the approach by enabling definition and composition of domain-specific languages.

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