BED-Con talk

What is this?

These are some companion pages (and examples) for my talk at the BED-Con 2014 focusing on the JBJ project.

Slides

The slides of the talk can be downloaded here

Source code

The source code of the examples can be found here

Topics

• Introduction
• Breakdown of the problem
  • The many influences of PHP
  • General project structure
• The parser
  • Short overview over classic lexers/parsers
  • Java parser generators
  • Scala combinators
    • Simple calculator example
    • Missing lexer modes
  • Comparison: flex/bison vs Scala combinators
• The abstract syntax tree (AST)
  • Testing the interpreter
• Common runtime library
  • Generate glue code with Scala marcos
    • Scala macros: Getting started
    • Scala macros: Calculator example
• Convert PHP code
  • Very first converted PHP
  • Recent examples
• Open issues