OpenEdge 4GL Grammar

[MaartenM]

Does anyone know a resource that holds the grammar of OpenEdge 4Gl, in some form, BNF or otherwise? I want to perform some code analysis.
I know of the startup parameter to generate a list of keywords, but not of anything that shows the actual ABL grammar.
Thanks for any help,
Maarten

 

[MaartenM]

Hmm, I seem to have found an ANTLR grammar .g file in OpenEdge architect which might help me out a bit. So this question might not be relevant anymore. Still, any experiences will be useful.

 

[tamhas]

Why do things the hard way. Go get yourself a copy of Proparse http://www.oehive.org/proparse and the job is already done for you. Look in the neighborhood for examples of its use, particularly ProLint.

 

[medu]

Why do things the hard way. Go get yourself a copy of Proparse http://www.oehive.org/proparse and the job is already done for you.

Thomas, do you know of any plans to migrate the grammar to ANTLR V3?

 

[tamhas]

If you mean Proparse, you would have to ask John. But, he went through a fairly major migration only something like a year back which includes using a tool that gives him both Java and .NET code from a single base. It is a very mature product, so I would be surprised to see it get any further restructuring any time soon.

Why do you care?