Creating Custom Languages
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Computer applications sometimes manage complex problem domains that require specialized expertise. Often it is easier to support these domains by creating a domain specific language (DSL), which is tailored to the requirements of that problem domain. Defining a language has traditionally been a difficult task. It requires domain expertise to define a semantic model and it used to require specialized skill in defining the syntax, and creating a language parser.
MGrammar greatly simplifies defining your language's syntax and creating a parser. MGrammar is itself a language for defining language syntax. MGrammar allows you specify what the language's tokens are and the rules for combining them. In essence, a language is a collection of rules for imposing structure on text input.
In This Section
- Input Processing
Includes topics that describe a number of ways to process inputs in a concise and compact way.