JJForester NEWS

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Version 0.6

• JJForester now supports VisitorCombinators. These are implementations of the visitor interface that can be used to compose new visitors from given ones. A complete explanation can be found in VisitorCombinationAndTraversalControl. The distribution now includes the "jjtraveler" package, which is a framework of generic visitor combinators. The visitor code generated by JJForester instantiates this framework.
• The iterating accept methods accept_td and accept_bu are now deprecated. Use traversal combinators instead.
• A method parseString is generated in addition to the parseFile method.
• To allow more fine-grained configuration, new swithes have been added to the configuration script: "--with-aterm", "--with-pgen", "--with-sglr", etc. By default these are set to the value of the "--with-xt" switch, which was already present.
• The properties file "jjforester.props" is now generated at build time instead of configuration time.
• A package definition file has been added for use by autobundle.

Version 0.5

• A subclass ToStringVisitor^? of Visitor is now also generated. For every constructor C it offers a method toString_C that prints the textual ATerm representation of the AST, and which can be refined to do prettier printing.

Version 0.4

• The generated parse and read methods now make use of the Java implementation of the ATerm Library. The old methods, which still use the ATerm parser generated with JavaCC^?, are still available as deprecated methods.

Version 0.3

• Sort classes are now generated in a subpackage "sort", and the constructor classes for each sort "S" are generated in a subpackage named "S". This prevents name clashes when constructor names coincide with sort names.
• The parse methods for each sort are now generated in the class of that sort, instead of in a separate parse class for that sort.
• The generated accept method for top-down traversal is now called "accept_td" instead of "accept", and additionally a non-iterating method called "accept" is generated.
• The name clash between JJForester (the executable) and jjforester (the package) that turned up under Mac OS X (thanks to Jeroen Scheerder) has been fixed.