Phobos: A front-end approach to extensible compilers (long version)
Ádám Gránicz, Jason J. Hickey · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) · 2002
This paper describes a practical approach for implementing certain types of domain-specific languages with extensible compilers. Given a compiler with one or more front-end languages, we introduce the idea of a "generic" front-end that allows the syntactic and semantic specification of domain-specific languages. Phobos, our generic front-end, offers modular language specification, allowing the programmer to define new syntax and semantics incrementally.